CVE-2007-4038

N/A Unknown
Published: July 27, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026
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Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

8 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.3%
50th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-94

Affected Vendors

mozilla

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