VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-6971
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.23%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-02-07
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation