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CVE-2006-1728

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 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: none known
• Published: 2006-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.2 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the crypto.generateCRMFRequest method.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 4.10, 5.04, 5.10
• Mozilla Firefox: from 1.0 before 1.0.8; from 1.5 before 1.5.0.2 — fixed in 1.0.8, 1.5.0.2
• Mozilla Suite: before 1.7.13 — fixed in 1.7.13
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 1.0.1 — fixed in 1.0.1
• Mozilla Thunderbird: from 1.0 before 1.0.8; from 1.5 before 1.5.0.2 — fixed in 1.0.8, 1.5.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.8, 1.5.0.2; Mozilla Suite 1.7.13; Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.1; Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8, 1.5.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19631
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19649
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19696
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19714
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19721
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19729
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19746
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19759
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19780

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