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high 7.5

CVE-2005-2968 in the critical feed json

Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the b…

published 2005-09-20 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2968

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.7%
EPSS 10.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.

Patch / fix

  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.7-1.4.1
  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.0.7-1.4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-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-2005-2968 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:785

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-26288)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-26288 Mozilla Browser/Firefox - Arbitrary Command Execution remote, 2005-09-20

CVSS scores

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

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.