Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2266

Title: Mozilla Firefox Information Disclosure

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2266.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Jul 13, 2005
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2266: Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 allows a child frame to call top.focus and other methods in a parent frame, even when the parent is in a different domain, which violates the same origin policy and allows remote attackers to steal sensitive information such as cookies and passwords from web sites whose child frames do not verify that they are in the same domain as their parents.

Impacted Vendors

M
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Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/15549 http://secunia.com/advisories/15551 http://secunia.com/advisories/15553 http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-52.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14242 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21332 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100107 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10712 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1415 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A773 http://secunia.com/advisories/15549 http://secunia.com/advisories/15551 http://secunia.com/advisories/15553 http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-52.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14242 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21332 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100107 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10712 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1415 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A773
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-2266 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.