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CVE-2008-5505 (GCVE-0-2008-5505)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-17 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:56
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-10… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2008-12-16 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
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