About “Firefox”

A curated feed of “Firefox”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 3704 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 338 were published. Average CVSS is 7.4 (all time; 8.1 over 365d), and 60% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, CWE-416 - Use After Free, CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Browsers are high value endpoints. Force auto updates, enforce enterprise policies, limit risky extensions, and enable site isolation or sandboxing. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

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CVSS ≥ 0.0
2005-12-31
Medium

CVE-2005-4685

Firefox and Mozilla can associate a cookie with multiple domains when the DNS resolver has a non-root domain in its search list, which allows remote attackers to trick a user into accepting a cookie…

Medium

CVE-2005-4720

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a proble…

Medium

CVE-2005-4809

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 and possibly other versions, including Mozilla and Thunderbird, allows remote attackers to spoof the URL in the Status Bar via an A HREF tag that contains a TABLE tag that conta…

2005-12-09
Medium

CVE-2005-4134

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a la…

2005-09-28
Low

CVE-2005-3089

Firefox 1.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an eval statement. NOTE: it is not clear whether an untrusted party has any role in…

2005-09-23
High

CVE-2005-2701

Heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XBM image file that ends in a large number of spaces instea…

High

CVE-2005-2702

Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via Unicode sequences with "zero-width non-joiner…

Medium

CVE-2005-2703

Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of XML HTTP requests via XMLHttpRequest, and possibly use the client to exploit vulnerabilities in…

Medium

CVE-2005-2704

Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spoof DOM objects via an XBL control that implements an internal XPCOM interface.

High

CVE-2005-2705

Integer overflow in the JavaScript engine in Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Medium

CVE-2005-2706

Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla before Suite 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to execute Javascript with chrome privileges via an about: page such as about:mozilla.

Medium

CVE-2005-2707

Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spawn windows without user interface components such as the address and status bar, which could be used to conduct spoo…

2005-09-20
High

CVE-2005-2968

Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.

2005-09-09
High

CVE-2005-2871

Buffer overflow in the International Domain Name (IDN) support in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and earlier, and Netscape 8.0.3.3 and 7.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and pos…

2005-08-17
Low

CVE-2005-2602

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 and Firefox 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to obfuscate URIs via a long URI, which causes the address bar to go blank and could facilitate phishing attacks.

2005-08-03
Low

CVE-2005-2414

Race condition in the xpcom library, as used by web browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Galeon, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large HTML…

Medium

CVE-2005-2429

Firefox, when opening Microsoft Word documents, does not properly set the permissions on shared sections, which allows remote attackers to write arbitrary data to open applications in Microsoft Offic…

2005-07-27
Medium

CVE-2005-2395

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617, which might cause credentials to be sent in plaintext even if…

2005-07-13
High

CVE-2005-2260

The browser user interface in Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 does not properly distinguish between user-generated events and untrusted synthetic events, which…

High

CVE-2005-2261

Firefox before 1.0.5, Thunderbird before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, Netscape 8.0.2, and K-Meleon 0.9 runs XBL scripts even when Javascript has been disabled, which makes it easier for remote attack…

Medium

CVE-2005-2262

Firefox 1.0.3 and 1.0.4, and Netscape 8.0.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into using the "Set As Wallpaper" (in Firefox) or "Set as Background" (in Netscape)…

Medium

CVE-2005-2263

The InstallTrigger.install method in Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 allows remote attackers to execute a callback function in the context of another domain by forcing a page navigation…

High

CVE-2005-2264

Firefox before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to steal sensitive information by opening a malicious link in the Firefox sidebar using the _search target, then injecting script into other pages via a d…

Medium

CVE-2005-2265

Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calli…

Medium

CVE-2005-2266

Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 allows a child frame to call top.focus and other methods in a parent frame, even when the parent is in a different domain, which violates the same origin…

High

CVE-2005-2267

Firefox before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to steal information and possibly execute arbitrary code by using standalone applications such as Flash and QuickTime to open a javascript: URL, which is…

Low

CVE-2005-2268

Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 does not clearly associate a Javascript dialog box with the web page that generated it, which allows remote attackers to spoof a dialog box from a truste…

High

CVE-2005-2269

Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 does not properly verify the associated types of DOM node names within the context of their namespaces, which allows remote attackers to…

High

CVE-2005-2270

Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 does not properly clone base objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by navigating the prototype chain to reach a privileged obj…

2005-07-05
Medium

CVE-2005-2114

Mozilla 1.7.8, Firefox 1.0.4, Camino 0.8.4, Netscape 8.0.2, and K-Meleon 0.9, and possibly other products that use the Gecko engine, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application c…

2005-06-14
Low

CVE-2005-1937

A regression error in Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript from one page into the frameset of another site, aka the frame injection spoofing vulnerab…

2005-05-26
Medium

CVE-2005-0150

Firefox before 1.0 allows the user to store a (1) javascript: or (2) data: URLs as a Livefeed bookmark, then executes it in the security context of the currently loaded page when the user later acces…

2005-05-14
Medium

CVE-2005-1575

The file download dialog in Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1 and 1.0 for Windows allows remote attackers to hide the real file types of downloaded files via the Content-Type HTTP header and a filename containi…

2005-05-12
High

CVE-2005-1531

Firefox before 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.8 does not properly implement certain security checks for script injection, which allows remote attackers to execute script via "Wrapped" javascript:…

High

CVE-2005-1532

Firefox before 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.8 do not properly limit privileges of Javascript eval and Script objects in the calling context, which allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorize…

Low

CVE-2005-1576

The file download dialog in Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1 and 1.0 for Windows uses the Content-Type HTTP header to determine the file type, but saves the original file extension when "Save to Disk" is selec…

2005-05-09
Medium

CVE-2005-1476

Firefox 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Javascript in other domains by using an IFRAME and causing the browser to navigate to a previous javascript: URL, which can lead to arbitrar…

Medium

CVE-2005-1477

The install function in Firefox 1.0.3 allows remote web sites on the browser's whitelist, such as update.mozilla.org or addon.mozilla.org, to execute arbitrary Javascript with chrome privileges, lead…

2005-05-02
Low

CVE-2005-0141

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 allow remote attackers to load local files via links "with a custom getter and toString method" that are middle-clicked by the user to be opened in a new t…

Low

CVE-2005-0142

Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or…

Low

CVE-2005-0144

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 display the secure site lock icon when a view-source: URL references a secure SSL site while an insecure page is being loaded, which could facilitate phish…

Medium

CVE-2005-0146

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive data from the clipboard via Javascript that generates a middle-click event on systems for which a middle-click p…

High

CVE-2005-0147

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5, when configured to use a proxy, respond to 407 proxy auth requests from arbitrary servers, which allows remote attackers to steal NTLM or SPNEGO credentia…

Medium

CVE-2005-0230

Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote att…

Low

CVE-2005-0232

Firefox 1.0 allows remote attackers to modify Boolean configuration parameters for the about:config site by using a plugin such as Flash, and the -moz-opacity filter, to display the about:config site…

Medium

CVE-2005-0255

String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions tha…

Medium

CVE-2005-0399

Heap-based buffer overflow in GIF2.cpp in Firefox before 1.0.2, Mozilla before to 1.7.6, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, and possibly other applications that use the same library, allows remote attacke…

Medium

CVE-2005-0401

FireFox 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 do not sufficiently address all attack vectors for loading chrome files and hijacking drag and drop events, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary X…

Low

CVE-2005-0402

Firefox before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into saving a page as a Firefox sidebar panel, then using the sidebar panel to inject Javascript into a privi…

Medium

CVE-2005-0527

Firefox 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via plugins that load "privileged content" into frames, as demonstrated using certain XUL events when a user drags a scrollbar two times,…

Low

CVE-2005-0578

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.6 use a predictable filename for the plugin temporary directory, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files of other users via a symlink atta…

Low

CVE-2005-0584

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6, when displaying the HTTP Authentication dialog, do not change the focus to the tab that generated the prompt, which could facilitate spoofing and phishi…

Low

CVE-2005-0586

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to spoof the extensions of files to download via the Content-Disposition header, which could be used to trick users int…

Medium

CVE-2005-0588

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 does not restrict xsl:include and xsl:import tags in XSLT stylesheets to the current domain, which allows remote attackers to determine the existence of…

Medium

CVE-2005-0589

The Form Fill feature in Firefox before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to steal potentially sensitive information via an input control that monitors the values that are generated by the autocomplete c…

Medium

CVE-2005-0590

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host perfor…

Low

CVE-2005-0591

Firefox before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to spoof the (1) security and (2) download modal dialog boxes, which could be used to trick users into executing script or downloading and executing a fil…

Medium

CVE-2005-0989

The find_replen function in jsstr.c in the Javascript engine for Mozilla Suite 1.7.6, Firefox 1.0.1 and 1.0.2, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to read portions of heap memory in a Javascript…

High

CVE-2005-1153

Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, when blocking a popup, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a javascript: URL that is executed when the user selects the "Show ja…

High

CVE-2005-1154

Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in other domains via a setter function for a variable in the target domain, which is executed w…

High

CVE-2005-1155

The favicon functionality in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a <LINK rel="icon"> tag with a javascript: URL in the href attri…

High

CVE-2005-1156

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script and code via a new search plugin using sidebar.addSearchEngine, aka "Firesearchi…

High

CVE-2005-1157

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename a…

Medium

CVE-2005-1158

Multiple "missing security checks" in Firefox before 1.0.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript into privileged pages using the _search target of the Firefox sidebar.

High

CVE-2005-1159

The native implementations of InstallTrigger and other functions in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 do not properly verify the types of objects being accessed, which causes the Ja…

Medium

CVE-2005-1160

The privileged "chrome" UI code in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by overriding certain properties or methods of DOM nodes, as demonstr…

2005-04-18
High

CVE-2005-0752

The Plugin Finder Service (PFS) in Firefox before 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a javascript: URL in the PLUGINSPAGE attribute of an EMBED tag.

2005-03-25
Low

CVE-2005-0585

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 truncates long sub-domains or paths for display, which may allow remote malicious web sites to spoof legitimate sites and facilitate phishing attacks.

Medium

CVE-2005-0587

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into downloading a .LNK (link) file twice, which overwrites the file…

High

CVE-2005-0592

Heap-based buffer overflow in the UTF8ToNewUnicode function for Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary co…

2005-03-23
Low

CVE-2005-0143

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 display the SSL lock icon when an insecure page loads a binary file from a trusted site, which could facilitate phishing attacks.

2005-03-04
Low

CVE-2005-0593

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof the SSL "secure site" lock icon via (1) a web site that does not finish loading, which shows the lock of the previous si…

2005-02-08
High

CVE-2005-0233

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in…

2005-02-07
Low

CVE-2005-0231

Firefox 1.0 does not invoke the Javascript Security Manager when a user drags a javascript: or data: URL to a tab, which allows remote attackers to bypass the security model, aka "firetabbing."

2005-01-27
Critical

CVE-2004-0902

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application c…

Critical

CVE-2004-0903

Stack-based buffer overflow in the writeGroup function in nsVCardObj.cpp for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allows remote attackers to ex…

2005-01-24
Low

CVE-2005-0145

Firefox before 1.0 does not properly distinguish between user-generated and synthetic click events, which allows remote attackers to use Javascript to bypass the file download prompt when the user us…

2004-12-31
Critical

CVE-2004-0904

Integer overflow in the bitmap (BMP) decoder for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via wide…

Medium

CVE-2004-0906

The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, whic…

Medium

CVE-2004-0907

The Linux install .tar.gz archives for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8, create certain files with insecure permissions, which could allow…

Medium

CVE-2004-0908

Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allows untrusted Javascript code to read and write to the clipboard, and possibly obtain sensitive informa…

Medium

CVE-2004-0909

Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 may allow remote attackers to trick users into performing unexpected actions, including installing softwar…

Medium

CVE-2004-1156

Mozilla before 1.7.6, and Firefox before 1.0.1, allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary web sites by injecting content from one window into a target window whose name is known but resides in a dif…

Medium

CVE-2004-1200

Firefox and Mozilla allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory consumption), as demonstrated using Javascript code that continuously creates nested arrays and…

Low

CVE-2004-1449

Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7 allows remote attackers to determine the location of files on a user's hard drive by obscuring a file upload control and tricking th…

Low

CVE-2004-1753

The Apple Java plugin, as used in Netscape 7.1 and 7.2, Mozilla 1.7.2, and Firefox 0.9.3 on MacOS X 10.3.5, when tabbed browsing is enabled, does not properly handle SetWindow(NULL) calls, which allo…

Medium

CVE-2004-2225

Mozilla Firefox before 0.10.1 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files in the download directory via a crafted data: URI that is not properly handled when the user clicks the Save button.

Medium

CVE-2004-2227

Mozilla Firefox before 1.0 truncates long filenames in the file download dialog box, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick users into downloading files with dangerous extensions.

High

CVE-2004-2228

Mozilla Firefox before 1.0 is installed with world-writable permissions on Mac OS X, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Low

CVE-2004-2657

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1, and possibly other versions, preserves some records of user activity even after uninstalling, which allows local users who share a Windows profile to view the records after a…

2004-12-23
High

CVE-2004-0867

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2 allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains, such as .ltd.uk, .plc.uk, and .sch.uk, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation a…

2004-10-26
Medium

CVE-2004-1639

Mozilla Firefox before 0.10, Mozilla 5.0, and Gecko 20040913 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or memory consumption) via a large binary file with a .html extens…

2004-10-20
Medium

CVE-2004-1380

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 allows inactive (background) tabs to launch dialog boxes, which can allow remote attackers to spoof the dialog boxes from web sites in other windows and fa…

Medium

CVE-2004-1381

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 allow inactive (background) tabs to focus on input being entered in the active tab, as originally reported using form fields, which allows remote attackers…

2004-09-14
Medium

CVE-2004-0905

Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allows remote attackers to perform cross-domain scripting and possibly execute arbitrary code by convincin…

2004-08-18
Critical

CVE-2004-0757

Heap-based buffer overflow in the SendUidl in the POP3 capability for Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, may allow remote POP3 mail servers to execute arbitrary code.

Medium

CVE-2004-0761

Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, allow remote attackers to use certain redirect sequences to spoof the security lock icon that makes a web page appear to be encrypt…

Medium

CVE-2004-0762

Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, allow remote web sites to install arbitrary extensions by using interactive events to manipulate the XPInstall Security dialog box.

Medium

CVE-2004-0763

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 allows remote web sites to spoof certificates of trusted web sites via redirects and Javascript that uses the "onunload" method.

Critical

CVE-2004-0764

Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, allow remote web sites to hijack the user interface via the "chrome" flag and XML User Interface Language (XUL) files.

High

CVE-2004-0765

The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, only checks the hostname portion of a certificate when the hostname portion of the URI is not a f…

High

CVE-2004-0779

The (1) Mozilla 1.6, (2) Firebird 0.7 and (3) Firefox 0.8 web browsers do not properly verify that cached passwords for SSL encrypted sites are only sent via SSL encrypted sessions to the site, which…

2004-08-06
Critical

CVE-2004-0648

Mozilla (Suite) before 1.7.1, Firefox before 0.9.2, and Thunderbird before 0.7.2 allow remote attackers to launch arbitrary programs via a URI referencing the shell: protocol.

2004-07-27
High

CVE-2004-0718

The (1) Mozilla 1.6, (2) Firebird 0.7, (3) Firefox 0.8, and (4) Netscape 7.1 web browsers do not properly prevent a frame in one domain from injecting content into a frame that belongs to another dom…