CVE-2005-1155

HIGH 7.5CVE-2005-1155 · Published 02/05/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-1155 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla), mozilla (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.3%, higher than 94.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`= 0.10= 0.10.1= 0.8= 0.9= 0.9.1= 0.9.2= 0.9.3= 1.0= 1.0.1= 1.0.2`	No fix yet
mozilla mozilla	`= 1.3= 1.4= 1.4.1= 1.5= 1.5.1= 1.6= 1.7= 1.7.1= 1.7.2= 1.7.3= 1.7.5= 1.7.6`	No fix yet

Description

The favicon functionality in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a <LINK rel="icon"> tag with a javascript: URL in the href attribute, aka "Firelinking."

References

ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt
secunia.com/advisories/14938 · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/14992 · Patch
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml · Patch
kb.cert.org/vuls/id/973309 · Patch
mikx.de/firelinking · Exploit
mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-37.html · Vendor Advisory
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html · Patch
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/13216
securityfocus.com/bid/15495
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Patch

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