CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects Firefox. Its EPSS score suggests a 21.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2005-2871
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
21.11%
Firefox
Original NVD Description
Buffer overflow in the International Domain Name (IDN) support in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and earlier, and Netscape 8.0.3.3 and 7.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with all "soft" hyphens (character 0xAD), which is not properly handled by the NormalizeIDN call in nsStandardURL::BuildNormalizedSpec.