CVE-2005-4720: mozilla firefox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2005-4720 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 8.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 5 public exploits are recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 15-02-2006PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 16-09-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
8.41%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
95%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 8.41% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
5 foundExploit Reference (securitytracker.com)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (securityfocus.com)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (security-protocols.com)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Mozilla1 product
- firefox1.0.6 | 1.0.7
1 vendor · 1 product
References
6 links- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433X Refsource CONFIRM
- security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978X Refsource MISCExploitVendor Advisory