FKIE_CVE-2004-0909

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2004-12-31 05:00 - Updated: 2026-04-16 00:27
Severity
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 may allow remote attackers to trick users into performing unexpected actions, including installing software, via signed scripts that request enhanced abilities using the enablePrivilege parameter, then modify the meaning of certain security-relevant dialog messages.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253942Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109698896104418&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/12526
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/113192Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17377
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253942Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109698896104418&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/12526
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/113192Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17377
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla mozilla 0.8
mozilla mozilla 0.9.2
mozilla mozilla 0.9.2.1
mozilla mozilla 0.9.3
mozilla mozilla 0.9.4
mozilla mozilla 0.9.4.1
mozilla mozilla 0.9.5
mozilla mozilla 0.9.6
mozilla mozilla 0.9.7
mozilla mozilla 0.9.8
mozilla mozilla 0.9.9
mozilla mozilla 0.9.35
mozilla mozilla 0.9.48
mozilla mozilla 1.0
mozilla mozilla 1.0
mozilla mozilla 1.0
mozilla mozilla 1.0.1
mozilla mozilla 1.0.2
mozilla mozilla 1.1
mozilla mozilla 1.1
mozilla mozilla 1.1
mozilla mozilla 1.2
mozilla mozilla 1.2
mozilla mozilla 1.2
mozilla mozilla 1.2.1
mozilla mozilla 1.3
mozilla mozilla 1.3.1
mozilla mozilla 1.4
mozilla mozilla 1.4
mozilla mozilla 1.4
mozilla mozilla 1.4.1
mozilla mozilla 1.4.2
mozilla mozilla 1.4.4
mozilla mozilla 1.5
mozilla mozilla 1.5.1
mozilla mozilla 1.6
mozilla mozilla 1.7
mozilla mozilla 1.7
mozilla mozilla 1.7
mozilla mozilla 1.7
mozilla mozilla 1.7
mozilla mozilla 1.7
mozilla mozilla 1.7.1
mozilla mozilla 1.7.2
mozilla thunderbird 0.1
mozilla thunderbird 0.2
mozilla thunderbird 0.3
mozilla thunderbird 0.4
mozilla thunderbird 0.5
mozilla thunderbird 0.6
mozilla thunderbird 0.7
mozilla thunderbird 0.7.1
mozilla thunderbird 0.7.2
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