FKIE_CVE-2005-0587

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-03-25 05:00 - Updated: 2026-04-16 00:27
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into downloading a .LNK (link) file twice, which overwrites the file that was referenced in the first .LNK file.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19823Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-21.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.htmlBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100037Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/19823Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-21.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100037Broken Link
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox *
mozilla mozilla *
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  "id": "CVE-2005-0587",
  "lastModified": "2026-04-16T00:27:16.627",
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