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CVE-2006-2782

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Firefox 1.5.0.2 does not fix all test cases associated with CVE-2006-1729, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by inserting the target filename into a text box, then turning that box into a file upload control.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 1.5.0.3
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.0.1

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20376
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20561
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21134
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21176
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21178
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21183
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21188
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21269
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21270
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21324
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21336

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