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CVE-2005-1160
The privileged "chrome" UI code in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by…
Medium5.1EPSS 2.7%
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- redhat
Description
The privileged "chrome" UI code in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by overriding certain properties or methods of DOM nodes, as demonstrated using multiple attacks involving the eval function or the Script object.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% 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: Medium 5.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (17)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289083 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 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
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100017 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-41.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 19823 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 13233 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 15495 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289074 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:601 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-200504-18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289961 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 14938 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:384 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11291 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:383 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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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