CVE-2005-0527

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via plugins that load "privileged content" into frames, as demonstrated using certain XUL events when a user drags a scrollbar two times, aka "Firescrolling."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.0

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110935267500395&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013301
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/?p=11
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-27.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100031
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11772
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110935267500395&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013301

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