CVE-2006-6503

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2006-6503

    CVE-2006-6503

    Published: 20 Dec 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection by changing the src attribute of an IMG element to a javascript: URI.

    References: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/23282, http://secunia.com/advisories/23420, http://secunia.com/advisories/23422, http://secunia.com/advisories/23433, http://secunia.com/advisories/23439, http://secunia.com/advisories/23440, http://secunia.com/advisories/23468, http://secunia.com/advisories/23514, http://secunia.com/advisories/23545, http://secunia.com/advisories/23589, http://secunia.com/advisories/23591, http://secunia.com/advisories/23598, http://secunia.com/advisories/23601, http://secunia.com/advisories/23614, http://secunia.com/advisories/23618, http://secunia.com/advisories/23672, http://secunia.com/advisories/23692, http://secunia.com/advisories/23988, http://secunia.com/advisories/24078, http://secunia.com/advisories/24390, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml, http://securitytracker.com/id?1017414, http://securitytracker.com/id?1017415, http://securitytracker.com/id?1017416, http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1253, http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1258, http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1265, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/405092, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:010, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:011, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-72.html, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-2, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-400-1, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10895, http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297, http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338, http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/405092, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455145/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455728/100/200/threaded, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883

    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