Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0578

Title: Firefox/Mozilla Suite plugin temporary directory symlink arbitrary file deletion

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0578.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.29%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0578: Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.6 use a predictable filename for the plugin temporary directory, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files of other users via a symlink attack on the plugtmp directory.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 2

Reference Links

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-28.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10954 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-28.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10954

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0578 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.