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CVE-2008-4069

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4069 describes an uninitialized memory read vulnerability in the XBM decoder of Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12. A remote attacker could exploit this by crafting a malicious XBM image, potentially leading to the disclosure of sensitive information under specific conditions. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9:rc:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0166 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.20.el2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.24.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.10-0.10.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-26.el4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4069Moderate

Mozilla XBM decoder information disclosure

Sep 23, 2008

References

download.novell.com / Download
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/31984
secunia.com / advisories/31985
secunia.com / advisories/32010
secunia.com / advisories/32012
secunia.com / advisories/32042
secunia.com / advisories/32044
secunia.com / advisories/32144
secunia.com / advisories/32185
secunia.com / advisories/32196
secunia.com / advisories/32845
secunia.com / advisories/33433
secunia.com / advisories/34501
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45361
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11000
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html
blackhat.com / presentations/bh-usa-08/Hoffman/Hoffman-BH2008-CircumventingJavaScript.ppt
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1649
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1669
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1697
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-45.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html
securityfocus.com / bid/31346
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-645-1
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-645-2
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2661
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0977