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CVE-2006-0496
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 and possibly earlier, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and possibly earlier, and Netscape…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.7%
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Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 and possibly earlier, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and possibly earlier, and Netscape 8.1 and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the -moz-binding (Cascading Style Sheets) CSS property, which does not require that the style sheet have the same origin as the web page, as demonstrated by the compromise of a large number of LiveJournal accounts.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
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Affected products
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References (10)
- http://www.davidpashley.com/cgi/pyblosxom.cgi/computing/livejournal-mozilla-bug.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324253 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1015563 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- mozilla-mozbinding-xss(24427) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0403 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 16427 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/708069.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1015553 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20060128 -moz-binding CSS property: more XSS fun (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 22924 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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