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CVE-2005-0584

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6, when displaying the HTTP Authentication dialog, do not change the focus to the tab that generated the prompt, which could facilitate spoofing and phishing attacks.

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://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-24.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277574
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100034
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11191
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-24.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html

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