Improper character decoding in HZ-GB-2312 charset — Mozilla

2012-11-2000:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

EPSS

0.003

Percentile

70.8%

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Security researcher Masato Kinugawa found when HZ-GB-2312 charset encoding is used for text, the “~” character will destroy another character near the chunk delimiter. This can lead to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack in pages encoded in HZ-GB-2312.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<17

mozillafirefox_esrRange<10.0.11

mozillaseamonkeyRange<2.14

mozillathunderbirdRange<17

mozillathunderbird_esrRange<10.0.11

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_esr*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird_esr*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	firefox_esr	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
mozilla	seamonkey	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird_esr	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr::::::::