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CVE-2006-1741

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript into other sites by (1) "using a modal alert to suspend an event handler while a new page is being loaded", (2) using eval(), and using certain variants involving (3) "new Script;" and (4) using window.__proto__ to extend eval, aka "cross-site JavaScript injection".

Affected products

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

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.8; Mozilla Suite 1.7.13; Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0. 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/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/19811

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