PT-2004-1941 · Mozilla · Firefox+2

Jesse Ruderman · Published 2004-09-24 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-0909

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions prior to the Preview Release Mozilla versions prior to 1.7.3 Thunderbird versions prior to 0.8

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to trick users into performing unexpected actions, including installing software. This is achieved through signed scripts that request enhanced abilities using the enablePrivilege parameter, and then modify the meaning of certain security-relevant dialog messages.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to the Preview Release, update to the Preview Release or later to resolve the issue. For Mozilla versions prior to 1.7.3, update to version 1.7.3 or later to resolve the issue. For Thunderbird versions prior to 0.8, update to version 0.8 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0909

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox

Thunderbird

References · 9

• 🔥 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253942 · Exploit
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0909 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109698896104418&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17377 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12526 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/113192 · Note
• http://mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3 · Note