CVE-2006-1993

Public Exploit

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2, when designMode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain Javascript that is not properly handled by the contentWindow.focus method in an iframe, which causes a reference to a deleted controller context object. NOTE: this was originally claimed to be a buffer overflow in (1) js320.dll and (2) xpcom_core.dll, but the vendor disputes this claim.

Category

5.1
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 57.32% Top 5%
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Affected: n/a n/a
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References

Link Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/20214 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19802 third party advisory patch vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 vdb entry vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1790 vdb entry signature
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434524/100/0/threaded vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20019 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.securident.com/vuln/ff.txt exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17671 exploit vdb entry patch
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-06.xml vendor advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25994 vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1922 vdb entry vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1055 vendor advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/866300 third party advisory us government resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/20015 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015981 vdb entry exploit
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 vdb entry vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1614 vdb entry vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431878/100/0/threaded mailing list
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-30.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22066 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20070 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1053 vendor advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/780 third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-1993?
CVE-2006-1993 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-1993?
To fix CVE-2006-1993, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-1993 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2006-1993 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~57% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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