RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-1155
The favicon functionality in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a <LINK rel="icon"> tag with a javascript: URL in the href attribute, aka "Firelinking."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.083 (94.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.083 · newest: 0.083 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla — versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10655 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/14992 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100021 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mikx.de/firelinking/ (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/973309 (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/14938 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)