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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2008-0417 json

CRLF injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 allows remote user-assisted web sites to corrupt the user's password store…

published 2008-02-08 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-0427

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

CRLF injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 allows remote user-assisted web sites to corrupt the user's password store via newlines that are not properly handled when the user saves a password.

Patch / fix

  • seamonkey RHEL 2.1 1.0.9-0.9.el2
  • seamonkey RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.9.el3
  • seamonkey RHEL 4 1.0.9-9.el4
  • seamonkey-nss RHEL 2.1 1.0.9-0.9.el2
  • seamonkey-nss RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.9.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 2.1 1.0.9-0.9.el2
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.9.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 4 1.0.9-9.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0104RHSA-2008:0103

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-0417 updated

Mozilla arbitrary code execution

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.9.el3, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0104
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 1.5.0.12-9.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0103
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.9.el2, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.9.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-9.el4, firefox 1.5.0.12-0.10.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-9.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0104
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 1.5.0.12-9.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0103
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-9.el4, firefox 1.5.0.12-0.10.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-9.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.9.el2, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.9.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-9.el4, firefox 1.5.0.12-0.10.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-9.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.9.el2, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.9.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.9.el3, +1 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-9.el4, firefox 1.5.0.12-0.10.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-9.el4, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-9.el4 Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.9.el2, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.9.el2, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0104

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Exploit prediction

1.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.