CVE-2006-0296

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The XULDocument.persist function in Mozilla, Firefox before 1.5.0.1, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not validate the attribute name, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Javascript by injecting RDF data into the user's localstore.rdf file.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+12)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-beta

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18700
http://secunia.com/advisories/18703
http://secunia.com/advisories/18704
http://secunia.com/advisories/18705
http://secunia.com/advisories/18706
http://secunia.com/advisories/18708
http://secunia.com/advisories/18709
http://secunia.com/advisories/19230
http://secunia.com/advisories/19746
http://secunia.com/advisories/19759

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