CVE-2006-2723 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Unspecified versions of Mozilla Firefox allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page that contains a large number of nested marquee tags. NOTE: a followup post indicated that the initial report could not be verified.

Published: 2006-06-01

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 9.7% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-2722	Unspecified versions of Mozilla Firefox allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page that contains a large number of nested marquee tags. NOTE: a followup post indicated that the initial report could not be verified.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.09686.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435373/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435411/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435882/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436268/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18165
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26898

History

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Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-06-01T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:58:51.919Z

Reserved: 2006-05-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-2723

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-06-01T01:02:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2006-2723

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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