Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-0590
The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (75.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla — versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/19823 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-17.html (Vendor Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100041 (signature, vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10010 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html (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)