RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-2703
Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of XML HTTP requests via XMLHttpRequest, and possibly use the client to exploit vulnerabilities in servers or proxies, including HTTP request smuggling and HTTP request splitting.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
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: 0.018 (77.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Suite — versions 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22376 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868 (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824 (vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1089 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-789.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17026 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)