CVE-2005-0230

N/A Unknown
Published: May 02, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026
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Description

Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser, aka "firedragging."

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.mikx.de/firedragging/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279945
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780995232064&w=2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.mikx.de/firedragging/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-25.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12468
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279945
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory

20 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
2.2%
85th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

mozilla