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CVE-2006-6971 Details

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0, possibly only when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to bypass the Phishing Protection mechanism by representing an IP address in (1) dotted-hex, (2) dotted-octal, (3) single decimal integer, (4) single hex integer, or (5) single octal integer format, which is not captured by the blacklist filter.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356355 CVEExploit
http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?13%2C2253 CVE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356355 [email protected]Exploit
http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?13%2C2253 [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-20Improper Input Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mozilla firefox
2.0.0.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-6971
NVD Published Date:
Feb 7, 2007
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]