Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2007-0981
Mozilla based browsers, including Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8, allow remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy, steal cookies, and conduct other attacks by writing a URI with a null byte to the hostname (location.hostname) DOM property, due to interactions with DNS resolver code.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.125 (96.1th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.121 · newest: 0.125 · change: +0.004
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24395 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/32104 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/24328 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-04.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460126/100/200/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-08.xml (vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2007-0981?
- CVE-2007-0981 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under CWE-264. Published 2007-02-16.
- Is CVE-2007-0981 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.