CVE-2005-0401

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 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 do not sufficiently address all attack vectors for loading chrome files and hijacking drag and drop events, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary XUL code by tricking a user into dragging a scrollbar, a variant of CVE-2005-0527, aka "Firescrolling 2."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+3)
Mozilla: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-alpha, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5-alpha (+16)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111168413007891&w=2
http://mikx.de/firescrolling2/
http://secunia.com/advisories/14654
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-32.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-335.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-336.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12885
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0296
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100026
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9650

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