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CVE-2005-2265

71
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2265 is a denial-of-service and potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability affecting Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2. It arises from an access violation and crash when the InstallVersion.compareTo function is called with an object instead of a string. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and potential for partial availability impact. While not listed in CISA KEV, exploit modules are available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, suggesting a higher likelihood of exploitation, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

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:N/I:N/A:P

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
68.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Mozilla Suite/Firefox compareTo() Code Execution · Jul 13, 2005
ExploitDB: EDB-16306 · Sep 20, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6810 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.0.6-1.4.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.9.2-2.4.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.0.6-1.4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2265Important

security flaw

Jul 12, 2005

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitVendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/16043
secunia.com / advisories/16044
secunia.com / advisories/16059
secunia.com / advisories/19823
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100008
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10397
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A417
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A781
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-810
mozilla.org / security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html
PatchVendor Advisory
networksecurity.fi / advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html
securityfocus.com / bid/14242
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1075