thunderbird — security advisory
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."
- Products
- thunderbird
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.5.0.2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-1733
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1733
thunderbird
Fixed versions: 1.5.0.2-1
thunderbird
Fixed versions: 1.5.0.2-1
thunderbird
Fixed versions: 1.5.0.2-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:20.371487074Z",
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"published_at": "2006-04-14T10:02:00+00:00"
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