Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2703

RCE

Title: Firefox/Mozilla Suite HTTP header modification

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2703.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date Sep 23, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.79%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2703: Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of XML HTTP requests via XMLHttpRequest, and possibly use the client to exploit vulnerabilities in servers or proxies, including HTTP request smuggling and HTTP request splitting.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 2

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/16911 http://secunia.com/advisories/16917 http://secunia.com/advisories/16977 http://secunia.com/advisories/17014 http://secunia.com/advisories/17026 http://secunia.com/advisories/17042 http://secunia.com/advisories/17090 http://secunia.com/advisories/17149 http://secunia.com/advisories/17263 http://secunia.com/advisories/17284 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014954 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-838 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:169 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:170 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_58_mozilla.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-789.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14923 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-200-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22376 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10767 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1089 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/16911 http://secunia.com/advisories/16917 http://secunia.com/advisories/16977 http://secunia.com/advisories/17014 http://secunia.com/advisories/17026 http://secunia.com/advisories/17042 http://secunia.com/advisories/17090 http://secunia.com/advisories/17149 http://secunia.com/advisories/17263 http://secunia.com/advisories/17284 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014954 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-838 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:169 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:170 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_58_mozilla.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-789.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14923 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-200-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22376 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10767 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1089

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:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-2703 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.

September 23, 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:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.