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CVE-2005-2268

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2268 describes a "Dialog Origin Spoofing Vulnerability" affecting Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9. This flaw allows remote attackers to spoof JavaScript dialog boxes, making them appear to originate from trusted websites, thereby facilitating phishing attacks. With a CVSS score of 2.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it has a network attack vector and low impact on integrity, but requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

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

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0288 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 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 (3)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2268Low

security flaw

Jun 7, 2005

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/15489
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / multiple_browsers_dialog_origin_vulnerability_test
Exploit
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100005
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10517
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1268
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1313
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-810
mozilla.org / security/announce/mfsa2005-54.html
PatchVendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html
securityfocus.com / bid/14242
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1075