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CVE-2008-1234

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1234 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions prior to their respective 2.0.0.13 and 1.1.9 releases. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through event handlers. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability is of medium complexity to exploit over a network, potentially leading to information disclosure (partial impact) but not compromising confidentiality or availability. 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
<= 2.0.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.0.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0277 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-0:1.0.9-0.14.el2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.16.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.12-0.14.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-15.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-10.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.12-14.el5_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-11.el5_1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-1234Moderate

universal XSS using event handlers

Mar 25, 2008

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00002.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2008-0208.html
secunia.com / advisories/29391
secunia.com / advisories/29526
secunia.com / advisories/29539
secunia.com / advisories/29541
secunia.com / advisories/29547
secunia.com / advisories/29548
secunia.com / advisories/29550
secunia.com / advisories/29558
secunia.com / advisories/29560
secunia.com / advisories/29607
secunia.com / advisories/29616
secunia.com / advisories/29645
secunia.com / advisories/30016
secunia.com / advisories/30094
secunia.com / advisories/30105
secunia.com / advisories/30192
secunia.com / advisories/30327
secunia.com / advisories/30370
secunia.com / advisories/30620
secunia.com / advisories/31043
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41455
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9551
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00058.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00074.html
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0128
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1532
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1534
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1535
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1574
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/466521
US Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-14.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0207.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0209.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/490196/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28448
securitytracker.com / id
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-592-1
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-605-1
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0998/references
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0999/references
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1793/references
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2091/references