Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2005-2429

Firefox, when opening Microsoft Word documents, does not properly set the permissions on shared sections, which allows remote attackers to write arbitrary data to open applications in Microsoft Office.

EPSS: 0.013 (66.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions 2.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)