CVE-2004-0909

Severity

51%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

106%

Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 may allow remote attackers to trick users into performing unexpected actions, including installing software, via signed scripts that request enhanced abilities using the enablePrivilege parameter, then modify the meaning of certain security-relevant dialog messages.

Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 may allow remote attackers to trick users into performing unexpected actions, including installing software, via signed scripts that request enhanced abilities using the enablePrivilege parameter, then modify the meaning of certain security-relevant dialog messages.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.8

0.8

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.2

0.9.2

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.2.1

0.9.2.1

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.3

0.9.3

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.4

0.9.4

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.4.1

0.9.4.1

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.5

0.9.5

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.6

0.9.6

Mozilla Mozilla 0.9.7

0.9.7

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.8

0.9.8

Mozilla Mozilla 0.9.9

0.9.9

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.35

0.9.35

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 0.9.48

0.9.48

Mozilla Mozilla 1.0

1.0

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.0.1

1.0.1

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.0.2

1.0.2

Mozilla Mozilla 1.1

1.1

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.1 Alpha

1.1

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.1 Beta

1.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.2

1.2

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.2 Alpha

1.2

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.2 Beta

1.2

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.2.1

1.2.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.3

1.3

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.3.1

1.3.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4

1.4

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4a

1.4

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.4b

1.4

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4.1

1.4.1

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.4.2

1.4.2

Mozilla Mozilla Browser 1.4.4

1.4.4

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5.1

1.5.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.6

1.6

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 alpha

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 beta

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 rc1

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 rc2

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 rc3

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7.1

1.7.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7.2

1.7.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1

0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2

0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3

0.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4

0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5

0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6

0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7

0.7

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1

0.7.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2

0.7.2

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253942

Exploit

SSRT4826

12526

GLSA-200409-26

VU#113192

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3

SUSE-SA:2004:036

Vendor Advisory

mozilla-enableprivilege-modify-dialog(17377)

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