RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-2779
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) nested <option> tags in a select tag, (2) a DOMNodeRemoved mutation event, (3) "Content-implemented tree views," (4) BoxObjects, (5) the XBL implementation, (6) an iframe that attempts to remove itself, which leads to memory corruption.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.070 (93.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.070 · newest: 0.070 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 0.6, 0.7, 0.7.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/27216 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20709 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1160 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-32.html
- secunia.com/advisories/21176 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/466673 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 (vdb-entry)
- usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/ (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26843 (vdb-entry)