CVE-2005-0231 describes a security bypass vulnerability in Firefox 1.0. This flaw, dubbed "firetabbing," allows remote attackers to circumvent the browser's security model by dragging javascript: or data: URLs to a new tab, as the Javascript Security Manager is not invoked in this scenario. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating network access, high attack complexity, no authentication required, and a potential impact of partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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