CVE-2005-1158

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple "missing security checks" in Firefox before 1.0.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript into privileged pages using the _search target of the Firefox sidebar.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+5)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/14938
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-39.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13231
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290079
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100019
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11734
http://secunia.com/advisories/14938
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-39.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13231
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290079

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