CVE-2005-1477 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-1477?

CVE-2005-1477 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 9 May 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

The install function in Firefox 1.0.3 allows remote web sites on the browser's whitelist, such as update.mozilla.org or addon.mozilla.org, to execute arbitrary Javascript with chrome privileges, leading to arbitrary code execution on the system when combined with vulnerabilities such as CVE-2005-1476, as demonstrated using a javascript: URL as the package icon and a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on a vulnerable whitelist site.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1477?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2005-1477?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2005-1477 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-1477 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x2x8-qmfc-8j2r.