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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

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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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