National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4038
Original release date:07/27/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (07/31/2007)
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Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of Firefox or Thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070726 Re: Mozilla protocol abuse
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070725 Mozilla protocol abuse
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20070725 Mozilla protocol abuse
External Source: MISC
Name: http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/