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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-1532 json

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 c…

published 2005-05-12 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1535

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.5%
EPSS 9.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.9.2-2.4.5
  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.0.6-1.4.1
  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.4-1.4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:435RHSA-2005:601RHSA-2005:434

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-2005-1532 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.5, firefox 1.0.4-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.5, firefox 1.0.4-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.5, firefox 1.0.4-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.5, firefox 1.0.4-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:435

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-25670)

Exploit prediction

9.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-25670 Mozilla Suite And Firefox - DOM Property Overrides Code Execution remote, 2005-05-16

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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.