CVE-2005-1155

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The favicon functionality in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a <LINK rel="icon"> tag with a javascript: URL in the href attribute, aka "Firelinking."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+5)
Mozilla: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-alpha, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5-alpha (+17)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/14938
http://secunia.com/advisories/14992
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/973309
http://www.mikx.de/firelinking/
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-37.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13216
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495

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