7.5

CVE-2005-0592: mozilla firefox

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
Published 28-02-2005Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2005-0592 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 3.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.86%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
RHSA-2005:176

Timeline

  1. 28-02-2005
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 code via invalid sequences in a UTF8 encoded string that result in a zero length value.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.86%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

90%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.86% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.86%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Mozilla2 products
  • firefox0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9:rc | 0.9.1 | 0.9.2 | 0.9.3 | 0.10 | 0.10.1 | 1.0
  • mozilla1.3 | 1.4 | 1.4:alpha | 1.4.1 | 1.5 | 1.5:alpha | 1.5:rc1 | 1.5:rc2 | 1.5.1 | 1.6 | 1.6:alpha | 1.6:beta | 1.7 | 1.7:alpha | 1.7:beta | 1.7:rc1 | 1.7:rc2 | 1.7:rc3 | 1.7.1 | 1.7.2 | 1.7.3 | 1.7.5

1 vendor · 2 products

References

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