MEDIUM
The "Feed Preview" feature in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 before 2.0.0.1 sends the URL of the feed when requesting favicon.ico icons, which results in a privacy leak that might allow feed viewing services to determine browsing habits
Published Dec 20, 2006
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.81%
Description
The "Feed Preview" feature in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 before 2.0.0.1 sends the URL of the feed when requesting favicon.ico icons, which results in a privacy leak that might allow feed viewing services to determine browsing habits.
Affected products
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.
4.3 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
1.81% 0.01812
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.01812
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 (15 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.81% (0.01812) | 77.86th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.71% (0.01711) | 74.30th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.45% (0.02450) | 84.10th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.45% (0.01454) | 87.22th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 14, 2024 | 1.20% (0.01199) | 85.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 15, 2024 | 1.69% (0.01691) | 87.33th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 30, 2023 | 2.38% (0.02379) | 88.68th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 23, 2023 | 2.63% (0.02631) | 89.15th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 15, 2023 | 2.05% (0.02050) | 87.65th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 8, 2023 | 1.82% (0.01816) | 86.65th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 15, 2023 | 1.89% (0.01892) | 86.71th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 2.05% (0.02052) | 87.20th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 2.69% (0.02686) | 82.85th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 2.69% (0.02686) | 81.17th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 2.69% (0.02686) | 62.66th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (17)
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23282 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23545 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23589 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23614 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23672 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017421 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215 x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-75.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Dec 20, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Dec 13, 2006
Link CVE-2006-6506
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a