CVE-2004-0909

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.

• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253942Exploit
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109698896104418&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12526
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/113192Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17377
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253942Exploit
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109698896104418&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12526
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/113192Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17377

Published

Dec 31, 2004

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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