CVE-2006-2783

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows…

published June 2, 2006

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
76.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01670 · 76.6th percentile
Published
2006-06-02T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 JUN 19:00Z
    Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows…
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