Security Advisory

CVE-2005-1477

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-05-09 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 21:51:50

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

The install function in Firefox 1.0.3 allows remote web sites on the browsers whitelist, such as update.mozilla.org or addon.mozilla.org, to execute arbitrary Javascript with chrome privileges, leading to arbitrary code execution on the system when combined with vulnerabilities such as CVE-2005-1476, as demonstrated using a javascript: URL as the package icon and a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on a vulnerable whitelist site.

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