VDB
GHSA-776f-3rrc-fhxf
GHSA-776f-3rrc-fhxf
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 1, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 1, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (3 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
Query this with the API
The same record, from the CLI:
vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-776f-3rrc-fhxf
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-776f-3rrc-fhxf
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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
"https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-776f-3rrc-fhxf/fixes/registry"
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References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26852 url
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-2 url
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/323-1 url
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21178 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21269 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21324 url
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016214 url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134 url
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-21.xml url
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0610.html url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded url
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749 url
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21188 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21210 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21607 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21631 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22066 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2783 advisory
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