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CVE-2005-1157

N/A

Published: April 18, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM UTC

3 products affected across 2 vendorsFirefoxMozillaNavigator

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Firefox · Mozilla

95%

0.10 0.10.1 0.8 0.9 0.9 rc 0.9.1 0.9.2 0.9.3 1.0 1.0.1 1.0.2

Mozilla · Mozilla

95%

1.3 1.4 1.4 alpha 1.4.1 1.5 1.5 alpha 1.5 rc1 1.5 rc2 1.5.1 1.6 1.6 alpha 1.6 beta 1.7 1.7 alpha 1.7 beta 1.7 rc1 1.7 rc2 1.7 rc3 1.7.1 1.7.2 1.7.3 1.7.5 1.7.6

Navigator · Netscape

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (14)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SCO

Source: [email protected]

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/14938

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/14992

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/14996

x_refsource_MISCExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mikx.de/firesearching/

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATPatch

Source: [email protected]

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Source: [email protected]

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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