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CVE-2006-1729

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox 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 read arbitrary files by (1) inserting the target filename into a text box, then turning that box into a file upload control, or (2) changing the type of the input control that is associated with an event handler.

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

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. 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/19794

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