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CVE-2005-0588

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0588 describes a vulnerability in Firefox versions prior to 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6, where XSLT stylesheets could use xsl:include and xsl:import tags to access files outside the current domain. This flaw allowed remote attackers to determine the existence of local files on a user's system. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but its impact is limited to information disclosure (C:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received negligible community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low exploitation risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9:rc:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
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
1.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0157 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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 (2)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.0.1-1.4.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0588Low

security flaw

Feb 24, 2005

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Patch
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100038
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10682
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/announce/mfsa2005-20.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
securityfocus.com / bid/12659