CVE-2006-1733

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    CVE-2006-1733

    Published: 14 Apr 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/19631, http://secunia.com/advisories/19696, http://secunia.com/advisories/19714, http://secunia.com/advisories/19721, http://secunia.com/advisories/19729, http://secunia.com/advisories/19746, http://secunia.com/advisories/19759, http://secunia.com/advisories/19780, http://secunia.com/advisories/19794, http://secunia.com/advisories/19811, http://secunia.com/advisories/19821, http://secunia.com/advisories/19823, http://secunia.com/advisories/19852, http://secunia.com/advisories/19862, http://secunia.com/advisories/19863, http://secunia.com/advisories/19902, http://secunia.com/advisories/19941, http://secunia.com/advisories/19950, http://secunia.com/advisories/20051, http://secunia.com/advisories/21033, http://secunia.com/advisories/21622, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:075, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:076, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:078, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-16.html, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1356, ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060404-01-U.asc, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-16.html, ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt, http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1, http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-12.xml, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-09.xml, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/488774, http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00153.html, http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00154.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0328.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0329.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0330.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434524/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436296/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436338/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17516, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-107A.html, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25817, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10815, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2020, https://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/276-1/

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High