fkie_cve-2007-4038
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-07-27 22:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Argument injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.5, when running on systems with Thunderbird 1.5 installed and certain URIs registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a mailto URI, which are inserted into the command line that is created when invoking Thunderbird.exe, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox *
mozilla thunderbird 1.5


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  "lastModified": "2025-04-09T00:30:58.490",
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