CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-1532

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in Firefox before 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.8 due to improper privilege limitation of JavaScript eval and Script objects in the calling context, allowing remote attackers to perform unauthorized activities via non-DOM property overrides, a variant of CVE-2005-1160.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely execute unauthorized operations in the victim's browser, potentially leading to data theft, malware installation, or session hijacking.

Recommendation

Immediately update Firefox to version 1.0.4 or later, and Mozilla Suite to version 1.7.8 or later to mitigate the vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Firefox before 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.8 do not properly limit privileges of Javascript eval and Script objects in the calling context, which allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via "non-DOM property overrides," a variant of CVE-2005-1160.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS