Upstream information

CVE-2005-2968 at MITRE

Description

Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 117619 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 128344 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:57:07 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:42 2025