CVE-2005-2268: Mozilla Firefox

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 does not clearly associate a Javascript dialog box with the web page that generated it, which allows remote attackers to spoof a dialog box from a trusted site and facilitates phishing attacks, aka the "Dialog Origin Spoofing Vulnerability."

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 2005-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.