CVE-2004-0909: Mozilla

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Mozilla: version 0.8 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.2.1 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; version 0.9.4.1 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only; …

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.