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CVE-2005-1157
Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with…
High7.5EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 16% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- RHSA-2005:386 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 14992 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 15495 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.mikx.de/firesearching/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 14938 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- mozilla-plugin-xss(20125) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:384 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9961 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:383 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 13211 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 14996 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290037 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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