CVE-2005-0230

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser, aka "firedragging."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.0

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780995232064&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
http://www.mikx.de/firedragging/
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-25.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12468
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279945
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100033
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780995232064&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823

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