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title: "CVE-2005-0584\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2005-0584

Publication date 2 May 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6, when displaying the HTTP
Authentication dialog, do not change the focus to the tab that generated
the prompt, which could facilitate spoofing and phishing attacks.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| mozilla | 7.04 feisty | Not in release |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2 |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0584)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0584)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2005-0584)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0584)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-149-3](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-149-3)
+ Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
+ 28 July 2005

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0584>