CVE-2005-1160 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before version 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before version 1.7.7. This flaw allowed remote attackers to gain elevated privileges by manipulating DOM node properties or methods within the privileged "chrome" UI code, often through functions like eval or the Script object. With a CVSS score of 5.1 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), it indicates a network-based attack with high access complexity, potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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