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CVE-2007-4038
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 …
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | through 2.0.0.4 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | Version 1.5 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded
- http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded