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CVE-2006-1740 json

Mozilla Firefox 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to spo…

published 2006-04-14 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-1740

cvss
2.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla Firefox 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to spoof secure site indicators such as the locked icon by opening the trusted site in a popup window, then changing the location to a malicious site.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1740

  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.9.2-2.4.8
  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.8-1.4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0329RHSA-2006:0328

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-2006-1740 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.8, firefox 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.8, firefox 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.8, firefox 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.8, firefox 1.0.8-1.4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0329

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

2.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% 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:P/A:N

References

Sources

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