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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2008-3198 json

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script into a chrome document via unspecified vectors, as…

published 2008-07-17 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-3188

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script into a chrome document via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by injection into a XUL error page. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code using CVE-2008-2933.

Patch / fix

  • firefox RHEL 5 3.0.1-1.el5
  • yelp RHEL 5 2.16.0-20.el5
  • devhelp RHEL 5 0.12-18.el5
  • xulrunner RHEL 5 1.9.0.1-1.el5
  • nspluginwrapper RHEL 5 0.9.91.5-22.el5
  • xulrunner-devel-unstable RHEL 5 1.9.0.1-1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0597

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-2008-3198 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) yelp 2.16.0-20.el5, devhelp 0.12-18.el5, firefox 3.0.1-1.el5, xulrunner 1.9.0.1-1.el5, nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5-22.el5, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.1-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) yelp 2.16.0-20.el5, devhelp 0.12-18.el5, firefox 3.0.1-1.el5, xulrunner 1.9.0.1-1.el5, nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5-22.el5, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.1-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) devhelp 0.12-18.el5, xulrunner 1.9.0.1-1.el5, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.1-1.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0597

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Exploit prediction

2.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.