Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-6503
Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection by changing the src attribute of an IMG element to a javascript: URI.
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: 0.042 (90.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.041 · newest: 0.042 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 5.10, 6.06, 6.10
- Debian Linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/405092 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23433 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23439 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23672 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23468 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23598 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2006-6503?
- CVE-2006-6503 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under CWE-254. Published 2006-12-20.
- Is CVE-2006-6503 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.