PT-2005-3810 · Mozilla+1 · Mozilla Firefox+2

Peter Zelezny · Published 2005-09-20 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2005-2968

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox version 1.0.6 Mozilla version 1.7.10

Description The issue allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line. This URL is sent unfiltered to bash, potentially leading to command execution.

Recommendations For Firefox version 1.0.6, update to a version that filters shell metacharacters in URLs provided on the command line. For Mozilla version 1.7.10, update to a version that filters shell metacharacters in URLs provided on the command line.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2968

DSA-868-1

RHSA-2005:785

RHSA-2005:791

RHSA-2005_785

RHSA-2005_791

Affected Products

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Red Hat

References · 39

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/26288 · Exploit
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307185 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-200-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-186-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-186-2 · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2968 · Security Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16869 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/14888 · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-2706.html · Note