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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-2707 json

Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spawn windows without user interface components such as the…

published 2005-09-23 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2708

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spawn windows without user interface components such as the address and status bar, which could be used to conduct spoofing or phishing attacks.

Patch / fix

  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.9.2-2.4.7
  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.7-1.4.1
  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.0.7-1.4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:789RHSA-2005:785RHSA-2005:791

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-2005-2707 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.7, firefox 1.0.7-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.7, firefox 1.0.7-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.7, firefox 1.0.7-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.7, firefox 1.0.7-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:789

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

1.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% 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

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