CVE-2005-0590

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

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 0.8

0.8

Mozilla Firefox 0.9

0.9

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 rc

0.9

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1

0.9.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2

0.9.2

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3

0.9.3

Mozilla Firefox 0.10

0.10

Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1

0.10.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.0

1.0

Mozilla Mozilla 1.3

1.3

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4

1.4

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4a

1.4

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4.1

1.4.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 alpha

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 rc1

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 rc2

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5.1

1.5.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.6

1.6

Mozilla Mozilla 1.6 alpha

1.6

Mozilla Mozilla 1.6 beta

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 Mozilla 1.7.3

1.7.3

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7.5

1.7.5

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

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3

0.7.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8

0.8

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9

0.9

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0

1.0

References

19823

GLSA-200503-10

Patch, Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200503-30

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-17.html

Vendor Advisory

SUSE-SA:2006:004

RHSA-2005:176

RHSA-2005:384

12659

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268059

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100041

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10010

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