Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-6585
The Extensions manager in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 does not properly populate the list of local extensions, which allows attackers to construct an extension that hides itself by finding its name in the list and then calling RemoveElement, as demonstrated by the FFsniFF extension. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0 is also affected.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (63.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 63.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.011 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 2.0, 3.0
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454058/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- azurit.elbiahosting.sk/ffsniff/ffsniff-0.2.tar.gz
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493585/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2046 (third-party-advisory)