CVE-2005-2266 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can steal sensitive information like cookies and passwords by exploiting a same-origin policy violation in Firefox child frames.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2005-2266?

CVE-2005-2266 is a medium-severity 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 before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 allows a child frame to call top.focus and other methods in a parent frame, even when the parent is in a different domain, which violates the same origin policy and allows remote attackers to steal sensitive information such as cookies and passwords from web sites whose child frames do not verify that they are in the same domain as their parents.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2266?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2266?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2005-2266 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2266 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-gp89-32gv-6hww.

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