CVE-2005-2968 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2968?

CVE-2005-2968 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 20 Sep 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2968?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2968?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2005-2968 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-2968 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-56cv-7m3h-rjxp.