CVE-2005-0587

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into downloading a .LNK (link) file twice, which overwrites the file that was referenced in the first .LNK file.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: before 1.0.1 — fixed in 1.0.1
Mozilla: before 1.7.6 — fixed in 1.7.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1; Mozilla 1.7.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-21.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100037
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-21.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100037

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