CVE-2006-5462 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2006-5462?

CVE-2006-5462 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 8 Nov 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.8, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.6, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates. NOTE: this identifier is for unpatched product versions that were originally intended to be addressed by CVE-2006-4340.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5462?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Network Security Services, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5462?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2006-5462 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5462 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

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• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5462, GHSA-rmhr-q7w5-3ffq.