CVE-2006-1726 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2006-1726?

CVE-2006-1726 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 14 Apr 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

Unspecified vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 before 1.5.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.1, allows remote attackers to bypass the js_ValueToFunctionObject check and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving setTimeout and Firefox' ForEach method.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1726?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2006-1726?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2006-1726 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1726 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1726, GHSA-7p29-2p26-qhwg.