CVE-2008-0416
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 1.6% (76th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0426)
- Published
- February 12, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0426 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28839(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28864(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28865(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28879(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29541(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30327(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30620(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31043(Vendor Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303
- http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/references(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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