CVE-2005-1157 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-1157?

CVE-2005-1157 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 18 Apr 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1157?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla, Netscape Navigator.

How do I fix CVE-2005-1157?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2005-1157 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-1157 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8hfq-wv6x-73v6.