security flaw
Published Dec 31, 2004
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 3.45%
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in MSG_UnEscapeSearchUrl in nsNNTPProtocol.cpp for Mozilla 1.7.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an NNTP URL (news:) with a trailing '\' (backslash) character, which prevents a string from being NULL terminated.
Affected products
No data.
- n/a
- 1.3
- 1.4
- 1.4
- 1.4.1
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5.1
- 1.6
- 1.6
- 1.6
- 1.7
- 1.7
- 1.7
- 1.7
- 1.7
- 1.7
- 1.7.1
- 1.7.2
- 1.7.3
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 3.45% (0.03449) | 88.63th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.45% (0.03449) | 87.43th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 5.16% (0.05156) | 88.90th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 9.22% (0.09220) | 87.73th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 5.65% (0.05649) | 89.67th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 7.09% (0.07091) | 93.92th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 8, 2024 | 5.84% (0.05841) | 93.45th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 30.96% (0.30956) | 96.81th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 8, 2023 | 56.05% (0.56055) | 97.34th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 22, 2023 | 76.56% (0.76561) | 97.67th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 80.92% (0.80918) | 97.74th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 85.48th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 84.01th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 67.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
No CWE recorded.
References (15)
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780717916478&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATExploitVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12131 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-1316 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617407 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18711 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1316
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100052 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9808 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-1316
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.