CVE-2006-1942
MEDIUM 5.1EPSS 2.6%
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 NVD
- 5.1 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 2.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 85th 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
Security advisories
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19698
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19988
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20063
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20376
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21176
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21183
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21324
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22066
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-39.html
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-view-image.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2106
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
- http://www.gavinsharp.com/tmp/ImageVuln.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18228