CVE-2005-0230

Severity

51%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

106%

Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser, aka "firedragging."

Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser, aka "firedragging."

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

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 1.0

1.0

References

20050207 Firedragging [Firefox 1.0]

19823

GLSA-200503-10

Patch, Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200503-30

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.mikx.de/firedragging/

Exploit

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-25.html

Patch

SUSE-SA:2006:004

12468

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279945

Vendor Advisory

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100033

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