CVE-2005-1157

HIGH

Description

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 as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

References

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt

http://secunia.com/advisories/14938

http://secunia.com/advisories/14992

http://secunia.com/advisories/14996

http://www.mikx.de/firesearching/

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13211

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290037

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20125

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9961

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2005-05-02

Updated: 2017-10-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH