CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0590

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-05-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox 0.8 • mozilla firefox 0.9 • mozilla firefox 0.9.1 • mozilla firefox 0.9.2 • mozilla firefox 0.9.3 • mozilla firefox 0.10 • mozilla firefox 0.10.1 • mozilla firefox 1.0 • mozilla mozilla 1.3 • mozilla mozilla 1.4 • mozilla mozilla 1.4.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.5 • mozilla mozilla 1.5.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.6 • mozilla mozilla 1.7 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.2 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.3 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.5 • mozilla thunderbird 0.1 • mozilla thunderbird 0.2 • mozilla thunderbird 0.3 • mozilla thunderbird 0.4 • mozilla thunderbird 0.5 • mozilla thunderbird 0.6 • mozilla thunderbird 0.7 • mozilla thunderbird 0.7.1 • mozilla thunderbird 0.7.2 • mozilla thunderbird 0.7.3 • mozilla thunderbird 0.8 • mozilla thunderbird 0.9 • mozilla thunderbird 1.0

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-451 User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information weakness

References