CVE-2005-0141: Mozilla Firefox

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 allow remote attackers to load local files via links "with a custom getter and toString method" that are middle-clicked by the user to be opened in a new tab.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only
• Mozilla Mozilla: version 1.7 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.7.2 only; version 1.7.3 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.