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CVE-2006-6501

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allows remote attackers to gain privileges and install malicious code via the watch Javascript function.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 5.10, 6.06, 6.10
• Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
• Mozilla Firefox: from 1.5 before 1.5.0.9; from 2.0 before 2.0.0.1 — fixed in 1.5.0.9, 2.0.0.1
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 1.0.7 — fixed in 1.0.7
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 1.5.0.9 — fixed in 1.5.0.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9, 2.0.0.1; Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.7; Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297
• http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23282
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23420
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23422
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23433
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23439

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