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CVE-2006-0299

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% 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 E4X implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.1, Thunderbird 1.5 if running Javascript in mail, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 exposes the internal "AnyName" object to external interfaces, which allows multiple cooperating domains to exchange information in violation of the same origin restrictions.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 1.5, 1.5-beta1
• Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-beta
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 1.5

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18700
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18704
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22065
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015570
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-08.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16476
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0413
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322312
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24437
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1625

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