RCE in Mozilla

CVE-2005-4874

The XMLHttpRequest object in Mozilla 1.7.8 supports the HTTP TRACE method, which allows remote attackers to obtain (1) proxy authentication passwords via a request with a "Max-Forwards: 0" header or (2) arbitrary local passwords on the web…

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.012 (65.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Mozilla — versions 1.7.8
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References