CVE-2005-4874: Mozilla

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XMLHttpRequest object in Mozilla 1.7.8 supports the HTTP TRACE method, which allows remote attackers to obtain (1) proxy authentication passwords via a request with a "Max-Forwards: 0" header or (2) arbitrary local passwords on the web server that hosts this object.

Affected products

• Mozilla Mozilla: version 1.7.8 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.