CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-2702

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via Unicode sequences with 'zero-width non-joiner' characters.

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization includes the possibility of remote code execution on vulnerable systems, which could lead to takeover of user workstations and leakage of sensitive data.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately upgrade Firefox to version 1.0.7 or later and Mozilla Suite to version 1.7.12 or later.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via Unicode sequences with "zero-width non-joiner" characters.

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