CVE-2005-1532

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Firefox before 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.8 do not properly limit privileges of Javascript eval and Script objects in the calling context, which allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via "non-DOM property overrides," a variant of CVE-2005-1160.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+6)
Mozilla: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-alpha, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5-alpha (+18)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013964
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013965
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-44.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-434.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-435.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13645
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0530

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