CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2260
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-07-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The browser user interface in Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 does not properly distinguish between user-generated events and untrusted synthetic events, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform dangerous actions that normally could only be performed manually by the user.
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 firefox 1.0.1
• mozilla firefox 1.0.2
• mozilla firefox 1.0.3
• mozilla firefox 1.0.4
• 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 mozilla 1.7.6
• mozilla mozilla 1.7.7
• mozilla mozilla 1.7.8
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-351 Insufficient Type Distinction weakness
References
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289940 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16043 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16044 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16059 secunia.com
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml www.ciac.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810 www.debian.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-45.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html www.networksecurity.fi
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14242 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100013 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10132 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1226 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A742 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289940 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16043 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16044 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16059 secunia.com
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml www.ciac.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810 www.debian.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-45.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html www.networksecurity.fi
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14242 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100013 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10132 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1226 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A742 oval.cisecurity.org