THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-2780
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-2780

Firefox vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.3%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via "jsstr tagify," which leads to memory corruption.
Affected vendor
Mozilla
Affected product
Firefox
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2006-06-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-2780

  • Confirm whether Mozilla Firefox is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-2780.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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