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CVE-2005-0149

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0149 describes a privacy bypass vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird versions 0.6 through 0.9 and Mozilla versions 1.7 through 1.7.3. The affected software failed to honor the network.cookie.disableCookieForMailNews preference, allowing remote attackers to use cookies within email messages despite user settings. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to impact data integrity (P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0168 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.0-1.1.EL4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.9.2-2.4.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: evolution-0:2.0.2-14
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0149Moderate

security flaw

Jan 20, 2005

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19823
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19172
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100047
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11407
mozilla.org / security/announce/mfsa2005-11.html
PatchVendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-094.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-335.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/12407