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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-1733

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute…

MEDIUM 6.8EPSS 5.08%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.08%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."

CVSS 2.0
6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
5.08% probability · 92th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-264
Affected
mozilla/firefox · mozilla/mozilla suite · mozilla/seamonkey · mozilla/thunderbird
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.