XSS in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-1741
Mozilla Firefox 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript into other sites by (1) "using a modal alert to suspend an event handler while a new page is being loaded", (2) using eval(), and using certain variants involving (3) "new Script;" and (4) using window.__proto__ to extend eval, aka "cross-site JavaScript injection".
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.039 (89.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.039 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.5
- Mozilla Suite
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 4.10, 5.04, 5.10
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0330.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19902 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/276-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-09.html (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19941 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19780 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0328.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19821 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)