CVE-2005-1155

high

Description

The favicon functionality in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a <LINK rel="icon"> tag with a javascript: URL in the href attribute, aka "Firelinking."

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10655

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100021

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290036

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13216

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-37.html

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/973309

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/14992

http://secunia.com/advisories/14938

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-05-02

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H