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CVE-2005-2968

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2968 describes a critical command injection vulnerability in Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10. Attackers can execute arbitrary commands by providing a malicious URL containing shell metacharacters on the command line, which the browser then passes unfiltered to bash. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a severe risk with potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.6:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7.10:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26288 · Sep 20, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1072 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-0:1.0.7-1.4.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.0.7-1.4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2968Important

security flaw

Sep 6, 2005

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/16869
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17042
secunia.com / advisories/17090
secunia.com / advisories/17149
secunia.com / advisories/17263
secunia.com / advisories/17284
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11105
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-866
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-868
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/914681
US Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html
securityfocus.com / bid/14888
securityfocus.com / bid/15495
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-186-1
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-186-2
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-200-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1794
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1824