CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2007-4038

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.

4.3 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

References
Link Resource
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2007-07-27 10:30

Updated : 2018-10-15 09:33

NVD link : CVE-2007-4038

Mitre link : CVE-2007-4038

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-94