Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4874

RCE

Title: XMLHttpRequest TRACE method exposes credentials in Mozilla 1.7.8

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-4874.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date Dec 31, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4874: The XMLHttpRequest object in Mozilla 1.7.8 supports the HTTP TRACE method, which allows remote attackers to obtain (1) proxy authentication passwords via a request with a "Max-Forwards: 0" header or (2) arbitrary local passwords on the web server that hosts this object.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297078 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302489 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41553 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297078 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302489 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41553

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-4874 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.

December 31, 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.