fkie_cve-2008-4066
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-09-24 20:37
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav�ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
References
Impacted products
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