EIP-2026-115860

PRE-CVE

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 - 'history.dat' Looping (PoC)

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-115860. PoCs published by ZIPLOCK.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a buffer overflow vulnerability in Firefox 1.5 by setting an excessively long document title, which is then saved to the history.dat file. Upon reopening Firefox, the overflow causes a crash (DoS), with potential for code execution with modifications.

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 - 'history.dat' Looping (PoC)

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by ZIPLOCK · htmldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1362

This exploit demonstrates a buffer overflow vulnerability in Firefox 1.5 by setting an excessively long document title, which is then saved to the history.dat file. Upon reopening Firefox, the overflow causes a crash (DoS), with potential for code execution with modifications.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Firefox 1.5
No auth needed
Prerequisites: User interaction (clicking a link) · Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP SP2
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026