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 performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-0591 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 performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-149-3 Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:21:06.511Z

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

Link: CVE-2005-0590

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-05-02T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2005-0590

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2005-02-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-0590 - Bugzilla

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