CVE-2006-6971

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0, possibly only when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to bypass the Phishing Protection mechanism by representing an IP address in (1) dotted-hex, (2) dotted-octal, (3) single decimal integer, (4) single hex integer, or (5) single octal integer format, which is not captured by the blacklist filter.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 2.0.0.1

References

http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?13%2C2253
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356355
http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?13%2C2253
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356355

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