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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2005-0401 json

FireFox 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 do not sufficiently address all attack vectors for loading chrome files and hijacking drag and drop…

published 2005-03-24 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0402

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FireFox 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 do not sufficiently address all attack vectors for loading chrome files and hijacking drag and drop events, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary XUL code by tricking a user into dragging a scrollbar, a variant of CVE-2005-0527, aka "Firescrolling 2."

Patch / fix

  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.2-1.4.1
  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.9.2-2.4.3
  • evolution RHEL 4 2.0.2-14

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:336RHSA-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-2005-0401 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3, firefox 1.0.2-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3, firefox 1.0.2-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3, firefox 1.0.2-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 evolution 2.0.2-14, devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.3, firefox 1.0.2-1.4.1
    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

3.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12885 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • mikx.de http://mikx.de/firescrolling2/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/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.