CVE-2004-2657 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1, and possibly other versions, preserves some records of user activity even after uninstalling, which allows local users who share a Windows profile to view the records after a new installation of Firefox, as reported for the list of Passwords Never Saved web sites. NOTE: The vendor has disputed this issue, stating that "The uninstaller is primarily there to uninstall the application. It is not there to uninstall user data. For the moment I will stick by my module-owner decision.

Published: 2006-04-20

Score: 1.7 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00146.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431021/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431063/100/0/threaded
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234680
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330884

History

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Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-04-20T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:36:25.142Z

Reserved: 2006-04-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-2657

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-2657

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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