CVE-2008-5505
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.3%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5482)
- Published
- December 17, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5482 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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