Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1155

RCE

Title: Firefox/Mozilla Suite favicon javascript: URL RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1155.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.28%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1155: The favicon functionality in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a <LINK rel="icon"> tag with a javascript: URL in the href attribute, aka "Firelinking."

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 2

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/14938 http://secunia.com/advisories/14992 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/973309 http://www.mikx.de/firelinking/ http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-37.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13216 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290036 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100021 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10655 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/14938 http://secunia.com/advisories/14992 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/973309 http://www.mikx.de/firelinking/ http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-37.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13216 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290036 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100021 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10655

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1155 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.