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CVE-2008-0592

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0592 describes a user-assisted denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8. An attacker could craft a plain .txt file with specific Content-Disposition and an invalid Content-Type, causing the browser to fail rendering subsequent plain text files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0179 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.9.el2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.9.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.12-0.10.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-9.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-8.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.12-9.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-8.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-0592Low

Mozilla text file mishandling

Feb 7, 2008

References

browser.netscape.com / releasenotes
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/28754
secunia.com / advisories/28818
secunia.com / advisories/28864
secunia.com / advisories/28865
secunia.com / advisories/28877
secunia.com / advisories/28879
secunia.com / advisories/28924
secunia.com / advisories/28939
secunia.com / advisories/28958
secunia.com / advisories/29086
secunia.com / advisories/29167
secunia.com / advisories/29567
secunia.com / advisories/30327
secunia.com / advisories/30620
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9972
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.novell.com / techcenter/psdb/6251b18e050302ebe7fe74294b55c818.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00274.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00309.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00381.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00905.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00946.html
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1484
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1485
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1489
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1506
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-09.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0103.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0104.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0105.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/487826/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/488002/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/27683
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-576-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0453/references
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0627/references
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1793/references