CVE-2005-1157

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

• ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14938Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14992Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14996Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.mikx.de/firesearching/Exploit
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13211Exploit, Patch
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290037Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20125
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9961
• ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14938Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14992Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14996Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.mikx.de/firesearching/Exploit
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13211Exploit, Patch
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290037Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20125
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9961

Published

May 2, 2005

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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