CVE-2005-4685 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2005-4685?

CVE-2005-4685 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 1 Feb 2006. 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 and Mozilla can associate a cookie with multiple domains when the DNS resolver has a non-root domain in its search list, which allows remote attackers to trick a user into accepting a cookie for a hostname formed via search-list expansion of the hostname entered by the user, or steal a cookie for an expanded hostname, as demonstrated by an attacker who operates an ap1.com Internet web site to steal cookies associated with an ap1.com.example.com intranet web site.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4685?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla.

How do I fix CVE-2005-4685?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4685 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2005-4685 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4685 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qx3r-96cr-cwr5.