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)
EPSS: 0.083 (94.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla — versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secalert@redhat.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_GENTOO, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)