CVE-2005-2263

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-07-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The InstallTrigger.install method in Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 allows remote attackers to execute a callback function in the context of another domain by forcing a page navigation after the install method has been called, which causes the callback to be run in the context of the new page and results in a same origin violation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+7)
Mozilla: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-alpha, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5-alpha (+19)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/16043
http://secunia.com/advisories/16059
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-48.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14242
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293331

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