CVE-2005-2114

Exp

Mozilla 1.7.8, Firefox 1.0.4, Camino 0.8.4, Netscape 8.0.2, and K-Meleon 0.9, and possibly other products that use the Gecko engine, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript that repeatedly calls an empty function.

Published: 2005-07-05 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2005-2114 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.10%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-2114

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-2114

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 4.32% 2.10% -2.22%
2 2025-03-30 9.35% 4.32% -5.03%
3 2025-03-29 — 9.35% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-2114

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-2114

OS Trackers for CVE-2005-2114

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-2114
ubuntu medium CVE-2005-2114 medium priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (firefox, firefox-3.0, lightning-sunbird, midbrowser, mozilla), 25 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, upstream): DNE 11, needs-triage 5, not-affected 5, released 3, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-2114

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-2114

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla camino 0.8.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:camino:0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 1.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla mozilla 1.7.8 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-2114

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