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CVE-2004-0762

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, allow remote web sites to install arbitrary extensions by using interactive events to manipulate the XPInstall Security dialog box.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 0.9
• Mozilla: through 1.7
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 0.7

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/0264.html
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162020
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/11999/
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
• http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/01/race-conditions-in-security-dialogs/
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16623
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10032

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