6.4

CVE-2006-5462: mozilla firefox

CVSS: 6.4v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2006-5462
Published 08-11-2006Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-5462 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 2.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.4/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.93%
0%100%
Low · +0.23 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6
DSA-1224-1DSA-1225-1DSA-1227-1RHSA-2006:0733RHSA-2006:0734RHSA-2006:0735

Timeline

  1. 08-11-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.8, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.6, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates. NOTE: this identifier is for unpatched product versions that were originally intended to be addressed by CVE-2006-4340.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.93%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

87%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.23 pp

From 2.70% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.93%

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

Mozilla4 products
  • firefox1.5 | 1.5:beta1 | 1.5:beta2 | 1.5.0.1 | 1.5.0.2 | 1.5.0.3 | 1.5.0.4 | 1.5.0.5 | 1.5.0.6 | 1.5.0.7
  • network_security_services3.11.3
  • seamonkey1.0 | 1.0:beta | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5
  • thunderbird1.5 | 1.5:beta2 | 1.5.0.1 | 1.5.0.2 | 1.5.0.3 | 1.5.0.4 | 1.5.0.6 | 1.5.0.7
Debian1 product
  • firefox-esr< 45.0esr-1

2 vendors · 5 products

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