Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1160

Title: Firefox/Mozilla Suite chrome UI code privilege escalation

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1160.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.72%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1160: The privileged "chrome" UI code in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by overriding certain properties or methods of DOM nodes, as demonstrated using multiple attacks involving the eval function or the Script object.

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://secunia.com/advisories/19823 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-41.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.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.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13233 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289074 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289083 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289961 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100017 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11291 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/19823 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-41.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.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.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13233 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289074 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289083 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289961 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100017 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11291

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1160 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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.