CVE-2008-6961

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

mailnews in Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.18 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.13, when JavaScript is enabled in mail, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the recipient, or comments in forwarded mail, via script that reads the (1) .documentURI or (2) .textContent DOM properties.

Affected products

Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.12; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+11)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.17; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+52)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32714
http://secunia.com/advisories/32715
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-59.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32363
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021247
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458883
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46734
http://secunia.com/advisories/32714
http://secunia.com/advisories/32715
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-59.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32363
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021247

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