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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2005-1160 json

The privileged "chrome" UI code in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by overri…

published 2005-04-18 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1163

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The privileged "chrome" UI code in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by overriding certain properties or methods of DOM nodes, as demonstrated using multiple attacks involving the eval function or the Script object.

Patch / fix

  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.9.2-2.4.4
  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.3-1.4.1
  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.0.6-1.4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:386RHSA-2005:383RHSA-2005:601

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-2005-1160 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.4, firefox 1.0.3-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.4, firefox 1.0.3-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.4, firefox 1.0.3-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.4, firefox 1.0.3-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:386

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

2.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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.