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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2008-5505 json

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL e…

published 2008-12-17 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5482

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • firefox RHEL 4 3.0.5-1.el4
  • firefox RHEL 5 3.0.5-1.el5_2
  • nss RHEL 4 3.12.2.0-1.el4
  • nss RHEL 5 3.12.2.0-2.el5
  • nspr RHEL 4 4.7.3-1.el4
  • nspr RHEL 5 4.7.3-2.el5
  • nss-tools RHEL 5 3.12.2.0-2.el5
  • xulrunner RHEL 5 1.9.0.5-1.el5_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:1036

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-2008-5505 updated

Firefox 3 User tracking via XUL persist attribute

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) nspr 4.7.3-2.el5, nss 3.12.2.0-2.el5, firefox 3.0.5-1.el5_2, nss-tools 3.12.2.0-2.el5, xulrunner 1.9.0.5-1.el5_2, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.5-1.el5_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 nspr 4.7.3-1.el4, nss 3.12.2.0-1.el4, firefox 3.0.5-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) nspr 4.7.3-2.el5, nss 3.12.2.0-2.el5, firefox 3.0.5-1.el5_2, nss-tools 3.12.2.0-2.el5, xulrunner 1.9.0.5-1.el5_2, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.5-1.el5_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 nspr 4.7.3-1.el4, nss 3.12.2.0-1.el4, firefox 3.0.5-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) nspr 4.7.3-2.el5, nss 3.12.2.0-2.el5, nss-tools 3.12.2.0-2.el5, xulrunner 1.9.0.5-1.el5_2, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.5-1.el5_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 nspr 4.7.3-1.el4, nss 3.12.2.0-1.el4, firefox 3.0.5-1.el4
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 nspr 4.7.3-1.el4, nss 3.12.2.0-1.el4, firefox 3.0.5-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:1036

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Exploit prediction

2.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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.