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CVE-2006-1733

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not…

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By redhat

  2. · 2 days later

    Published

  3. · 18 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2006-1733, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
5.2% · top 7.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

References

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Sources

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