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CVE-2006-1733

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% 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-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 1.0.7; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+4)
• Mozilla Suite: through 1.7.12; 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.10, 1.7.11
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.0; 1.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 1.0.7; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+4)

References

• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19631
• 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
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19794

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