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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2006-0295 json

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 if Javascript is enabled in mail, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arb…

published 2006-02-02 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0302

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
71.3%
EPSS 71.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
4
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 if Javascript is enabled in mail, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the QueryInterface method of the built-in Location and Navigator objects, which leads to memory corruption.

Patch / fix

  • thunderbird Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0295

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/browser/firefox_queryinterface)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

71.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/multi/browser/firefox_queryinterface Firefox location.QueryInterface() Code Execution metasploit exploit, normal rank, 2006-02-02
  • EDB-16301 Mozilla Firefox - location.QueryInterface() Code Execution (Metasploit) remote, 2010-09-20
  • EDB-1480 Mozilla Firefox 1.5 (OSX) - 'location.QueryInterface()' Code Execution (Metasploit) remote, 2006-02-08
  • EDB-1474 Mozilla Firefox 1.5 (Linux) - 'location.QueryInterface()' Code Execution (Metasploit) remote, 2006-02-07

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.