CVE-2005-0586: Mozilla Firefox

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to spoof the extensions of files to download via the Content-Disposition header, which could be used to trick users into downloading dangerous content.

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; version 0.10 only; …
• Mozilla Mozilla: version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.6 only; …

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