Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-2265
Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.681 (99.3th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 99th percentile — 99.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.681 · newest: 0.681 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla — versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810 (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml (government-resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19823 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/16059 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/16044 (third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075 (vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2005-2265?
- CVE-2005-2265 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Published 2005-07-13.
- Is CVE-2005-2265 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.