PT-2005-1310 · Mozilla · Firefox

Michael Krax · Published 2005-02-10 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2005-0230

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 Firefox version 1.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser. This occurs when an executable file with a dangerous extension, such as .bat or .exe, is dragged to the desktop despite having an image/gif content type.

Recommendations For Firefox version 1.0, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting the dragging of files with image/gif content type to the desktop to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0230

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 11

• 🔥 http://mikx.de/firedragging · Exploit
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0230 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279945 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-25.html · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/12468 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780995232064&w=2 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100033 · Note