CVE-2006-1942

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 and possibly other versions before 1.5.0.4, Netscape 8.1, 8.0.4, and 7.2, and K-Meleon 0.9.13 allows user-assisted remote attackers to open local files via a web page with an IMG element containing a SRC attribute with a non-image file:// URL, then tricking the user into selecting View Image for the broken image, as demonstrated using a .wma file to launch Windows Media Player, or by referencing an "alternate web page."

Affected products

K-Meleon Project K-Meleon: 0.9.13
Mozilla Firefox: 1.5.0.2
Netscape Navigator: 7.2, 8.0.40, 8.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19698
http://secunia.com/advisories/19988
http://secunia.com/advisories/20063
http://secunia.com/advisories/20376
http://secunia.com/advisories/21176
http://secunia.com/advisories/21183
http://secunia.com/advisories/21324
http://secunia.com/advisories/22066
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016202
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134

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