MEDIUM
mozilla: web forgery warning may not be displayed
Published Feb 9, 2008
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.97%
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 does not always display a web forgery warning dialog if the entire contents of a web page are in a DIV tag that uses absolute positioning, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct phishing attacks.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Not vulnerable. This does not affect the versions of Firefox or SeaMonkey shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.0 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
1.97% 0.01968
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.01968
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (18 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.97% (0.01968) | 79.66th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.97% (0.01968) | 77.72th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 1.26% (0.01256) | 77.52th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 3.77% (0.03767) | 79.84th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.26% (0.01256) | 78.00th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jan 20, 2025 | 8.95% (0.08954) | 94.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 2.97% (0.02971) | 90.64th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 13, 2024 | 4.72% (0.04721) | 92.97th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 3.49% (0.03494) | 91.90th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 5, 2024 | 2.94% (0.02938) | 90.58th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 23, 2024 | 2.27% (0.02269) | 89.37th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 15, 2024 | 2.16% (0.02162) | 89.00th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 2.00% (0.02001) | 87.04th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.93% (0.03932) | 85.88th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 13, 2023 | 3.93% (0.03932) | 85.48th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2023 | 2.69% (0.02686) | 82.44th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.93% (0.03932) | 84.43th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.93% (0.03932) | 67.70th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (38)
- http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28864 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28865 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28877 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28879 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28924 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28939 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28958 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29086 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29567 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30327 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30620 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/6251b18e050302ebe7fe74294b55c818.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1506 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:048 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-11.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487826/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488002/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27683 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019342 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-576-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0453/references vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0627/references vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-0594 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408164 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432036 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0594
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0594
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00274.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00381.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Feb 9, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Feb 5, 2008
Link CVE-2008-0594
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a