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Fencer Vulns
low 2.1

CVE-2005-0142 json

Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissio…

published 2005-01-29 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0143

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 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or attachments that belong to other users, e.g. content that is managed by helper applications such as PDF.

Patch / fix

  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.9.2-2.4.3
  • evolution RHEL 4 2.0.2-14

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:335

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-2005-0142 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:335

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

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% 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:P/I:N/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.