CVE-2006-0296 describes a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox (before 1.5.0.1) and SeaMonkey (before 1.0) where the XULDocument.persist function fails to validate attribute names. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject malicious RDF data into a user's localstore.rdf file, leading to arbitrary JavaScript execution. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, primarily impacting integrity. While the EPSS score indicates a higher than average exploitability probability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| 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:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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