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Fencer Vulns
low 2.6

CVE-2005-3089 json

Firefox 1.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an eval statement.

published 2005-09-28 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-3089

cvss
2.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Firefox 1.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an eval statement. NOTE: it is not clear whether an untrusted party has any role in triggering this issue, so it might not be a vulnerability.

Patch / fix

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

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

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-2005-3089 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.7, firefox 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.7, firefox 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
    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

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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