PT-2007-5249 · Mozilla · Firefox

Daniel Veditz + 2 · Published 2007-07-27 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2007-4041

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions 2.0.0.5 and 3.0alpha

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a NULL byte (%00) and shell metacharacters in a mailto, nntp, news, snews, or telnet URI.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox version 2.0.0.5, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue. For Mozilla Firefox version 3.0alpha, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4041

DSA-1344-1

DSA-1345-1

DSA-1346-1

DTSA-51-1

DTSA-52-1

DTSA-53-1

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4041 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/25053 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389580 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389106 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/783400 · Note
• http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2007/07/24/remote-command-execution-in-firefox-2005 · Note
• http://xs-sniper.com/blog/remote-command-exec-firefox-2005 · Note