CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2005-2968
HIGHEPSS 95th pctl7.5
CVSS v2
Description
Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
10.72%probability of exploitation in 30 days
95thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16869
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17042
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17090
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17149
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17263
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17284
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/914681
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14888
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-186-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-186-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-200-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1794
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307185
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11105
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