Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1157

RCE

Title: Firefox/Mozilla Suite search plugin replacement arbitrary script execution

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1157.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.73%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1157: Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

Impacted Vendors

netscape 1

mozilla 2

cloudera 1

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://secunia.com/advisories/14996 http://www.mikx.de/firesearching/ http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.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/13211 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290037 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20125 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9961 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://secunia.com/advisories/14996 http://www.mikx.de/firesearching/ http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.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/13211 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290037 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20125 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9961

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-2005-1157 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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.