CVE-2005-1157

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/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 01:30:00

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 Firefox 1.0.1

1.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2

1.0.2

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 Mozilla 1.7.6

1.7.6

Netscape Navigator 7.2

7.2

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