Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting mozilla package, versions [,1.0.6]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378216
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Apr 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Apr 2006

CVE-2006-2057  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mozilla.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Argument injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via " (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler, as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.

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