CVE-2005-1576

LOW 2.6CVE-2005-1576 · Published 12/05/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-1576 is a LOW (CVSS 2.6) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 66.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`= 0.10.1= 1.0`	No fix yet

Description

The file download dialog in Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1 and 1.0 for Windows uses the Content-Type HTTP header to determine the file type, but saves the original file extension when "Save to Disk" is selected, which allows remote attackers to hide the real file types of downloaded files.

References

secunia.com/advisories/12979 · Exploit
secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-11/advisory · Exploit
osvdb.org/16432 · Exploit

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