CVE-2004-1380

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 allows inactive (background) tabs to launch dialog boxes, which can allow remote attackers to spoof the dialog boxes from web sites in other windows and facilitate phishing attacks, aka the "Dialog Box Spoofing Vulnerability."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+2)
Mozilla: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-alpha, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5-alpha (+15)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/12712
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_dialog_box_spoofing_test/
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_form_field_focus_test/
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-05.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-335.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18864
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100050
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10211
http://secunia.com/advisories/12712
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_dialog_box_spoofing_test/
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_form_field_focus_test/

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