CVE-2005-2455

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-2455 · Published 04/08/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2455 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting greasemonkey (greasemonkey).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.5%, higher than 95.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
greasemonkey greasemonkey	`= 0.3.3`	No fix yet

Description

Greasemonkey before 0.3.5 allows remote web servers to (1) read arbitrary files via a GET request to a file:// URL in the GM_xmlhttpRequest API function, (2) list installed scripts using GM_scripts, or obtain sensitive information via (3) GM_setValue and GM_getValue.

References

greaseblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/mandatory-greasemonkey-update.html · Patch
greasemonkey.mozdev.org/changes/0.3.5.html · Patch
mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-July/004000.html · Exploit
mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-July/004022.html
secunia.com/advisories/16128 · Patch
securitytracker.com/id · Exploit
osvdb.org/18154
securiteam.com/securitynews/5CP0P20GBK.html · Exploit
securityfocus.com/bid/14336 · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1147
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21453

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