CVE-2006-1942

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 and possibly other versions before 1.5.0.4, Netscape 8.1, 8.0.4, and 7.2, and K-Meleon 0.9.13 allows user-assisted remote attackers to open local files via a web page with an IMG element containing a SRC attribute with a non-image file:// URL, then tricking the user into selecting View Image for the broken image, as demonstrated using a .wma file to launch Windows Media Player, or by referencing an "alternate web page."

CVSS v2.0

5.1 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

2.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 84th percentile

Published

2006-04-20

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433138/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433539/30/5070/threaded

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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• CVE-2006-1941
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