CVE-2006-2783

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    CVE-2006-2783

    Published: 2 Jun 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/20376, http://secunia.com/advisories/20382, http://secunia.com/advisories/20561, http://secunia.com/advisories/20709, http://secunia.com/advisories/21134, http://secunia.com/advisories/21176, http://secunia.com/advisories/21178, http://secunia.com/advisories/21183, http://secunia.com/advisories/21188, http://secunia.com/advisories/21210, http://secunia.com/advisories/21269, http://secunia.com/advisories/21270, http://secunia.com/advisories/21324, http://secunia.com/advisories/21336, http://secunia.com/advisories/21532, http://secunia.com/advisories/21607, http://secunia.com/advisories/21631, http://secunia.com/advisories/22065, http://secunia.com/advisories/22066, http://secunia.com/advisories/31074, http://secunia.com/advisories/35379, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:143, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:145, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:146, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_35_mozilla.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0578.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0594.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0610.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0611.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2106, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html, http://securitytracker.com/id?1016202, http://securitytracker.com/id?1016214, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-12.xml, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-21.xml, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-42.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435795/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18228, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26852, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10772, https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-2/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/323-1/

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High