CVE-2004-0909 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2004-0909

Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and...

Vulnerability Description

Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 may allow remote attackers to trick users into performing unexpected actions, including installing software, via signed scripts that request enhanced abilities using the enablePrivilege parameter, then modify the meaning of certain security-relevant dialog messages.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mozilla, thunderbird
Vulnerable Versions:
0.8, 0.9.2, 0.9.2.1, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 0.9.35, 0.9.48, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.4, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.7.2

Timeline

Official Publish: September 24th, 2004
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.