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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (68.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 68.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 2.0
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24346 (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/16256 (third-party-advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/18484 (vdb-entry)