CVE-2006-6503
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.2%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection by changing the src attribute of an IMG element to a javascript: URI.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-254
- EPSS score
- 4.2% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6486)
- Published
- December 20, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6486 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc(Broken Link)
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297(Broken Link)
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338(Broken Link)
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742(Broken Link)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23282(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23420(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23422(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23433(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23439(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23440(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23468(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23514(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23545(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23589(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23591(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23598(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23601(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23614(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23618(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23672(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23692(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23988(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24078(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24390(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017414(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017415(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017416(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1253(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1258(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1265(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/405092(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:010(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:011(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-72.html(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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