CVE-2004-2657

Severity: low (CVSS 1.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% 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 1.5.0.1, and possibly other versions, preserves some records of user activity even after uninstalling, which allows local users who share a Windows profile to view the records after a new installation of Firefox, as reported for the list of Passwords Never Saved web sites. NOTE: The vendor has disputed this issue, stating that "The uninstaller is primarily there to uninstall the application. It is not there to uninstall user data. For the moment I will stick by my module-owner decision.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.5.0.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431021/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431063/100/0/threaded
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234680
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330884
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431021/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431063/100/0/threaded
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234680
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330884

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