CVE-2005-2429: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Firefox, when opening Microsoft Word documents, does not properly set the permissions on shared sections, which allows remote attackers to write arbitrary data to open applications in Microsoft Office.

Affected products

Published 2005-08-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.