CVE-2005-0230
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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
- 5.1 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 3.26% probability · 88th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780995232064&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mikx.de/firedragging/Exploit
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-25.htmlPatch
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12468
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279945Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100033
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780995232064&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mikx.de/firedragging/Exploit
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-25.htmlPatch
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12468
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279945Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100033
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.