01 Record
CVE-2005-2968
Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 10.71% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-09-20 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 22:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-09-19
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6a3271455fee7d8cc308cf5806d30bf977920e0afb8ecdd4036d8c6e4ddb91e6
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-868http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-1824http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824
- ftp.sco.comSCOSA-2005.49ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt
- www.securityfocus.com14888http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14888
- www.securityfocus.com15495http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307185
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-186-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-186-2
- secunia.com16869http://secunia.com/advisories/16869
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:791http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-200-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-200-1
- secunia.com17042http://secunia.com/advisories/17042
- www.debian.orgDSA-866http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html
- secunia.com17284http://secunia.com/advisories/17284
- secunia.com17149http://secunia.com/advisories/17149
- secunia.com17263http://secunia.com/advisories/17263
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:11105https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11105
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#914681http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/914681
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:785http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-186-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-186-1
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:174http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174
- secunia.com17090http://secunia.com/advisories/17090
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-1794http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1794