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CVE-2005-0578 json

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.6 use a predictable filename for the plugin temporary directory, which allows local users…

published 2005-02-27 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0579

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.6 use a predictable filename for the plugin temporary directory, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files of other users via a symlink attack on the plugtmp directory.

Patch / fix

  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.1-1.4.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:176

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0578 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 firefox 1.0.1-1.4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 firefox 1.0.1-1.4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 firefox 1.0.1-1.4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 firefox 1.0.1-1.4.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:176

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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