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CVE-2005-2265: mozilla firefox

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
Published 13-07-2005Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2005-2265 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 68.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 4 public exploits are recorded.

Overall risk
44/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
68.10%
0%100%
Critical · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits4reference, exploit-database, metasploit

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 9
DSA-779-1DSA-779-2DSA-781-1DSA-810-1DTSA-14-1DTSA-8-2

Timeline

  1. 13-07-2005
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

68.10%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

99%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 68.10% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
68.10%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

4 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

    Maturity: unknown

  • exploit-databaseremotewindowsVerified

    Mozilla Suite/Firefox - InstallVersion->compareTo() Code Execution (Metasploit)

    Maturity: weaponized

  • exploit-databaseremotewindowsVerified

    Mozilla Suite/Firefox < 1.0.5 - compareTo Code Execution (Metasploit)

    Maturity: weaponized

Show all 4 exploits
  • MetasploitMetasploitremoteUnverified

    Mozilla Suite/Firefox compareTo() Code Execution

    exploit/multi/browser/mozilla_compareto

    Maturity: poc

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 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4
  • 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 | 1.7.6 | 1.7.7 | 1.7.8

1 vendor · 2 products

References

22 links
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