{
    "id": "CVE-2005-2265",
    "published": "2005-07-13 04:00:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 22:14:34",
    "cvss_score": "5.0",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "cwe": null,
    "description": "Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.",
    "epss_score": "0.68097",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99306",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-26 18:14:42",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "mozilla",
            "product": "firefox"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "mozilla",
            "product": "mozilla"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "16306",
            "title": "Mozilla Suite/Firefox - InstallVersion->compareTo() Code Execution (Metasploit)",
            "date": "2010-09-20",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16306"
        },
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "9947",
            "title": "Mozilla Suite/Firefox < 1.0.5 - compareTo Code Execution (Metasploit)",
            "date": "2005-07-13",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9947"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/16043",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/16044",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/16059",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/19823",
        "http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml",
        "http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810",
        "http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html",
        "http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html",
        "http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html",
        "http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html",
        "http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html",
        "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html",
        "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html",
        "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14242",
        "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075",
        "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295854",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100008",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10397",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A417",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A781",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/16043",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/16044",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/16059"
    ]
}