CVE-2005-0589

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Form Fill feature in Firefox before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to steal potentially sensitive information via an input control that monitors the values that are generated by the autocomplete capability.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+3)

References

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-19.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270697
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100039
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10825
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-19.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270697

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