CVE-2005-2455

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-08-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Greasemonkey before 0.3.5 allows remote web servers to (1) read arbitrary files via a GET request to a file:// URL in the GM_xmlhttpRequest API function, (2) list installed scripts using GM_scripts, or obtain sensitive information via (3) GM_setValue and GM_getValue.

Affected products

Greasemonkey: 0.3.3

References

http://greaseblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/mandatory-greasemonkey-update.html
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/changes/0.3.5.html
http://mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-July/004000.html
http://mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-July/004022.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16128
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014529
http://www.osvdb.org/18154
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5CP0P20GBK.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14336
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1147
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21453
http://greaseblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/mandatory-greasemonkey-update.html

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