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CVE-2005-0587

CVE information

Published

19 years ago

Last Modified

2 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into downloading a .LNK (link) file twice, which overwrites the file that was referenced in the first .LNK file..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
2.6/10
Exploit Score
4.9/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
Partial

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.5/10
Exploit Score
2.8/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
Impact Score
3.6/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
Required

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 1.7.6
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 1.0.1