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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2007-07-27

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

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