CVE-2006-2784 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2784?

CVE-2006-2784 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 2 Jun 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

The PLUGINSPAGE functionality in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.4 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute privileged code by tricking a user into installing missing plugins and selecting the "Manual Install" button, then using nested javascript: URLs. NOTE: the manual install button is used for downloading software from a remote web site, so this issue would not cross privilege boundaries if the user progresses to the point of installing malicious software from the attacker-controlled site.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2784?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2784?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2006-2784 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-2784 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hh4w-c577-5gx4.