PT-2007-5246 · Mozilla · Firefox+1

Published 2007-07-27 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2007-4038

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: Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.5

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 Mozilla Firefox is running on systems with Thunderbird 1.5 installed and certain URIs are registered. The vulnerability enables the insertion of shell metacharacters into the command line that invokes Thunderbird.exe.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.5, update to version 2.0.0.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4038

DSA-1338-1

Affected Products

Firefox

Thunderbird

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4038 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse · Note