CVE-2008-4723 (GCVE-0-2008-4723)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:57
VLAI
Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 through 3.0.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an ftp:// URL for an HTML document within a (1) JPG, (2) PDF, or (3) TXT file. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31855 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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