CVE-2005-0590

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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 installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.

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)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+7)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
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/mfsa2005-17.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268059
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100041
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10010
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823

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