CVE-2006-6585

published 2006-12-15

CVE-2006-6585: The Extensions manager in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 does not properly populate the list of local extensions, which allows attackers to construct an extension that…

Priority P4 20 medium 6.4 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I P A P

The Extensions manager in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 does not properly populate the list of local extensions, which allows attackers to construct an extension that hides itself by finding its name in the list and then calling RemoveElement, as demonstrated by the FFsniFF extension. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0 is also affected.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	firefox	< firefox 45.0-1 (sid)	firefox 45.0-1 (sid)
debian	firefox-esr	< firefox 45.0-1 (sid)	firefox 45.0-1 (sid)
mozilla	firefox	—	—
mozilla	firefox	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 6.4 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

osv 6.4 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.4 MEDIUM

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