CVE-2006-1733

Summary

CVECVE-2006-1733
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-04-14 10:02:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

EPSS: 0.050770000 probability, percentile 0.914420000 (date 2026-07-22)

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.5 beta1 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.5 beta2 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite 1.7.10 All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite 1.7.11 All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite 1.7.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite 1.7.7 All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite 1.7.8 All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0 All alpha All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All beta All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.4 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 beta All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 beta2 All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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