PT-2007-5174 · Microsoft+1 · Internet Explorer+1

Published 2007-07-24 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2007-3954

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Internet Explorer (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a mailto URI. This occurs when Microsoft Internet Explorer is running on systems with SeaMonkey installed and certain URIs registered. The vulnerability enables the insertion of shell metacharacters into the command line that is created when invoking SeaMonkey.exe.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-3954

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Seamonkey

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3954 · Security Note
• http://larholm.com/2007/07/23/seamonkey-suite-affected-by-url-vulnerability · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/25021 · Note