MFSA2008-53 Firefox: XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation via session restore (CVE-2008-5019)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
11/13/2008
07/25/2018
06/14/2012
02/14/2023
Description
The session restore feature in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 and 2.x before 2.0.0.18 allows remote attackers to violate the same origin policy to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-2_0_0_18
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-3_0_4
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