CVE-2008-5508

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

17/12/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 does not properly parse URLs with leading whitespace or control characters, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.0.19 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::	3.0 (including)	3.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::	1.0 (including)	1.1.14 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.0.19 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0:::::::*

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CVE-2008-5508

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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