CVE-2006-2783
EPSS 5.0%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2006-2783
To remediate CVE-2006-2783, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/thunderbird—upgrade to 1.5.0.4-1 or later
Is CVE-2006-2783 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 5.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.5.0.4-1