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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-0590 json

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to…

published 2005-02-28 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0591

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.

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-2005-0590 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

1.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.