5.0med
CVE-2006-6971
Mozilla Firefox 2.0, possibly only when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to bypass the Phishing Protection mechanism by represen…
Published 19 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
5.0
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.3%
percentile 70%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
Mozilla Firefox 2.0, possibly only when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to bypass the Phishing Protection mechanism by representing an IP address in (1) dotted-hex, (2) dotted-octal, (3) single decimal integer, (4) single hex integer, or (5) single octal integer format, which is not captured by the blacklist filter.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.28% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 2.0 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
References
- bugzilla.mozilla.org /show_bug.cgi?id=356355 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
- sla.ckers.org /forum/read.php?13%2C2253 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2006-6971
- NVD: CVE-2006-6971
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