CVE-2007-4038

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Una vulnerabilidad de inyección de argumentos en Mozilla Firefox versiones anteriores a 2.0.0.5, cuando se ejecuta en sistemas con Thunderbird versión 1.5 instalado y ciertas URI registradas, permite a atacantes remotos conducir ataques de tipo cross-browser scripting y ejecutar comandos arbitrarios por medio de metacaracteres shell en una URI mailto, que se insertan en la línea de comandos que es creada al invocar el archivo Thunderbird.exe, un problema similar a CVE-2007-3670.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2007-07-27 CVE Reserved
2007-07-27 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2024-09-21 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse	X_refsource_misc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox"				<= 2.0.0.4 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " <= 2.0.0.4"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Thunderbird Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird"				1.5 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird" and version "1.5"		-		Affected