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CVE-2006-1740

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1740 describes a spoofing vulnerability in older versions of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Suite, and SeaMonkey. An attacker could exploit this by opening a trusted site in a popup, then redirecting it to a malicious site, thereby misleading users about the security of the connection. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high access complexity and a potential impact limited to partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0248 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 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, 0.0 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.0.8-1.4.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.9.2-2.4.8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-1740Low

security flaw

Apr 14, 2006

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt
patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060404-01-U.asc
lists.suse.com / archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/19631
secunia.com / advisories/19696
secunia.com / advisories/19714
secunia.com / advisories/19721
secunia.com / advisories/19729
secunia.com / advisories/19746
secunia.com / advisories/19759
secunia.com / advisories/19794
secunia.com / advisories/19811
secunia.com / advisories/19852
secunia.com / advisories/19862
secunia.com / advisories/19863
secunia.com / advisories/19902
secunia.com / advisories/19941
secunia.com / advisories/21033
secunia.com / advisories/21622
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25813
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10424
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1811
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm
usn.ubuntu.com / 271-1
usn.ubuntu.com / 275-1
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1044
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1046
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1051
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-12.xml
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-12.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00153.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00154.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0328.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0329.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/436296/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/436338/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/17516
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1356