CVE-2007-4039

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Jul 27, 2007
Updated: Apr 3, 2025
Reserved: Jul 27, 2007

Description

Argument injection vulnerability involving Mozilla, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an unspecified URI, which are inserted into the command line when invoking the handling process, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
20070725 Mozilla protocol abusemailing-list

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