CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3809

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey allows scripts with the UniversalBrowserRead privilege to gain UniversalXPConnect privileges. This may lead to code execution or access to sensitive data by reading into a privileged context.

Risk Assessment

Enables privilege escalation and potential arbitrary code execution in the browser context, which could result in system compromise or data leakage.

Recommendation

Update Mozilla Firefox to version 1.5.0.5 or later, Thunderbird to 1.5.0.5 or later, and SeaMonkey to 1.0.3 or later.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.5, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.3 allows scripts with the UniversalBrowserRead privilege to gain UniversalXPConnect privileges and possibly execute code or obtain sensitive data by reading into a privileged context.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS