CVE-2005-2262 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2262?

CVE-2005-2262 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 13 Jul 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 1.0.3 and 1.0.4, and Netscape 8.0.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into using the "Set As Wallpaper" (in Firefox) or "Set as Background" (in Netscape) context menu on an image URL that is really a javascript: URL with an eval statement, aka "Firewalling."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2262?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2262?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2005-2262 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-2262 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-hhwp-x6c3-m33w.