CVE-2005-2265
Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 68.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Mozilla Suite/Firefox compareTo() Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/browser/mozilla_comparetoRank normaldisclosed 13 Jul 2005
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Mozilla Suite/Firefox - InstallVersion->compareTo() Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16306remote, windowspublished 20 Sept 2010Verified
- Mozilla Suite/Firefox < 1.0.5 - compareTo Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9947remote, windowspublished 13 Jul 2005Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 68.1% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
22
- DSA-810 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2005:018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- P-252 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FLSA:160202 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 19823 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:587 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 16059 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16044 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2005-1075 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:601 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10397 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2005:045 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 14242 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295854 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:586 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 16043 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:417 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:781 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100008 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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-2005-2266 (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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