Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-0230
Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser, aka "firedragging."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.033 (87.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0
References
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-25.html (Patch)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100033 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/19823 (third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.mikx.de/firedragging/ (Exploit)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Vendor Advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12468 (vdb-entry)