CVE-2005-2262

no score yetEPSS 6.5%

mozilla firefox: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Firefox 1.0.3 and 1.0.4, and Netscape 8.0.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into using the "Set As Wallpaper" (in Firefox) or "Set as Background" (in Netscape) context menu on an image URL that is really a javascript: URL with an eval statement, aka "Firewalling."

EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2005-07-13
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/16043
http://secunia.com/advisories/16044
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml
http://www.mikx.de/firewalling/
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-47.html

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