CVE-2006-1741

Exp

Mozilla Firefox 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript into other sites by (1) "using a modal alert to suspend an event handler while a new page is being loaded", (2) using eval(), and using certain variants involving (3) "new Script;" and (4) using window.__proto__ to extend eval, aka "cross-site JavaScript injection".

Published: 2006-04-14 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-1741 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.95%). 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-2006-1741

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-1741

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 2025-05-08 1.59% 1.95% +0.35%
2 2025-03-30 3.85% 1.59% -2.26%
3 2025-03-29 — 3.85% —

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-1741

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-1741

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-1741

vendor priority summary link
debian medium CVE-2006-1741 medium priority: Debian including 2 source packages (firefox, thunderbird), 6 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 6. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-1741
gentoo normal CVE-2006-1741: 3 GLSA(s) (200604-12, 200604-18, 200605-09), 6 atom(s) (mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird, mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin, www-client/mozilla, www-client/mozilla-bin, www-client/mozilla-firefox, www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2006-1741
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-1741
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-1741 medium priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (firefox, firefox-granparadiso, lightning-sunbird, midbrowser, mozilla-thunderbird), 20 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): DNE 9, needs-triage 5, released 4, not-affected 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-1741

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2006-1741

Solution: Fixed in: Firefox 1.5 Firefox 1.0.8 Mozilla Suite 1.7.13 SeaMonkey 1.0

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-1741

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox >= 1.0, < 1.0.8 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 1.5 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla mozilla_suite < 1.7.13 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla seamonkey < 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 4.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 5.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 5.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-1741

URL Tags
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt Broken Link
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060404-01-U.asc Broken Link
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/19631 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19696 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19714 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19721 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19729 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19746 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19759 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19780 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19811 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19821 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19852 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19862 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19863 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19902 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19941 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19950 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20051 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21033 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21622 Third Party Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1 Broken Link
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1 Broken Link
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051 Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-12.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-09.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:076 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:078 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-09.html Exploit
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html Broken Link
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00153.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00154.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0328.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0329.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0330.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436296/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436338/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1356 Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25806 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1855 Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9167 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/276-1/ Third Party Advisory
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