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CVE-2008-5513

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5513 describes an unspecified vulnerability in the session-restore feature of Mozilla Firefox 2.x and 3.x, allowing remote attackers to bypass the same-origin policy and inject content, leading to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring medium attack complexity and resulting in partial integrity 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, < 2.0.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0, < 3.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0, < 1.1.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0, < 2.0.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 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 (13)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:2.0.0.19-1.el5_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.25.el2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.29.el3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: nspr-0:4.7.3-1.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: nss-0:3.12.2.0-1.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-32.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-18.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el5_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: nspr-0:4.7.3-2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: nss-0:3.12.2.0-2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:1.9.0.5-1.el5_2
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mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5513Critical

Firefox XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore

Dec 16, 2008

References

secunia.com / advisories/33184
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33188
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33189
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33203
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33216
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33231
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33421
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33523
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34501
Third Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/47418
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10389
Third Party Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Broken Link
usn.ubuntu.com / 690-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1707
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-69.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/32882
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-690-2
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0977
Third Party Advisory