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CVE-2007-4039

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

Argument injection vulnerability involving Mozilla, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an unspecified URI, which are inserted into the command line when invoking the handling process, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published7/27/2007

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mozilla:mozilla

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79CWE-79

References

http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/(cve@mitre.org)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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