CVE-2005-0230
Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 3.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser, aka "firedragging."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References10
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-25.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100033 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 19823 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20050207 Firedragging [Firefox 1.0] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.mikx.de/firedragging/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279945 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200503-30 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- GLSA-200503-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 12468 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-0231 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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