Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-1157
Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."
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: 0.025 (83.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla — versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1
- Netscape Navigator — versions 7.2
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/14992 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 (vdb-entry)
- www.mikx.de/firesearching/ (Exploit)
- secunia.com/advisories/14938 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20125 (vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9961 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)