CVE-2005-1160

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% 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 privileged "chrome" UI code in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by overriding certain properties or methods of DOM nodes, as demonstrated using multiple attacks involving the eval function or the Script object.

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://secunia.com/advisories/19823
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-41.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.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.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13233

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