CVE-2006-1729

Summary

CVECVE-2006-1729
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-04-14 10:02:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-18 16:34:00 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox 1.x before 1.5.0.2 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by (1) inserting the target filename into a text box, then turning that box into a file upload control, or (2) changing the type of the input control that is associated with an event handler.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 4.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 5.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 5.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 4.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 5.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 5.10 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite All All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All

References

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[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: firefox-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5 FEDORA www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
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Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
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Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
SUSE update for mozilla/firefox - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Debian update for mozilla - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Debian update for mozilla-thunderbird - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
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UnixWare update for mozilla - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
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SCOSA-2006.26 SCO ftp.sco.com Broken Link
Sun Solaris update for mozilla - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
ASA-2006-205 (SUN 102502, 102513, 102514, 102519, 102550, 102556, 102557, 102582, 102588, 102589, 102593) CONFIRM support.avaya.com Third Party Advisory
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