Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-1733
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.051 (92.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.051 · newest: 0.051 · 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
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0330.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434524/100/0/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19902 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/276-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10815 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19941 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19780 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0328.html (vendor-advisory)