CVE-2005-0587 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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 that was referenced in the first .LNK file.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01084.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla Subscribe	Firefox Subscribe Mozilla Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla::::::::

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-149-3	Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-21.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100037

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2005-02-28T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:21:06.516Z

Reserved: 2005-02-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-0587

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-03-25T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-0587

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-59

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