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CVE-2006-6501

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6501 describes an unspecified vulnerability in older versions of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. This flaw allows remote attackers to elevate privileges and install malicious code through the Javascript watch function. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it represents a medium-severity risk, indicating that an attacker could exploit it over a network with moderate complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Despite its age and potential impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.5, < 1.5.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0, < 2.0.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.5.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0292 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.7-0.1.el2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.7-0.1.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.9-0.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.10-0.6.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.7-0.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.9-0.1.el4
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-6501Critical

security flaw

Dec 19, 2006

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc
Broken Link
fedoranews.org / cms/node/2297
Broken Link
fedoranews.org / cms/node/2338
Broken Link
h20000.www2.hp.com / bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp
Broken Link
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23282
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23420
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23422
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23433
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23439
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23440
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23468
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23514
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23545
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23589
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23591
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23598
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23601
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23614
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23618
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23672
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23692
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23988
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24078
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24390
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-883
Broken Link
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9746
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1253
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1258
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1265
Third Party Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml
Third Party Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml
Third Party Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/263412
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-70.html
Vendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html
Broken Link
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / archive/1/455145/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/455728/100/200/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/21668
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-398-1
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-398-2
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-400-1
Third Party Advisory
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/5068
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0083
Third Party Advisory