Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-5633
Firefox 1.5.0.7 and 2.0, and Seamonkey 1.1b, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating a range object using createRange, calling selectNode on a DocType node (DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE), then calling createContextualFragment on the range, which triggers a null dereference. NOTE: the original Bugtraq post mentioned that code execution was possible, but followup analysis has shown that it is only a null dereference.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.075 (94.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.3% 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: 0.075 · change: +0.004
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.5.0.7, 2.0
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.1
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450682/100/200/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450155/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450168/100/0/threaded (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/050416.html (mailing-list, Exploit)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29916 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452803/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.gotfault.net/research/advisory/gadv-firefox.txt (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450167/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20799 (vdb-entry)