CVE-2004-2227

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 1.0 truncates long filenames in the file download dialog box, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick users into downloading files with dangerous extensions.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+2)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/13144
http://secunia.com/advisories/13724
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-03.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/11591
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234416
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18016
http://secunia.com/advisories/13144
http://secunia.com/advisories/13724
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-03.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/11591
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234416
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18016

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