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CVE-2006-6506
The "Feed Preview" feature in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 before 2.0.0.1 sends the URL of the feed when requesting favicon.ico icons, which…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.8%
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- redhat
Description
The "Feed Preview" feature in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 before 2.0.0.1 sends the URL of the feed when requesting favicon.ico icons, which results in a privacy leak that might allow feed viewing services to determine browsing habits.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% 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
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (17)
- 21668 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 23672 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-5068 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 23282 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- HPSBUX02153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 23614 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-398-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0083 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:080 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 23545 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- TA06-354A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 23589 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2007:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-75.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1017421 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-200701-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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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