Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2007-0996
The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (81.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24395 (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10086 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/24328 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html (vendor-advisory)
- slackware.com/security/viewer.php (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24384 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24457 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24343 (third-party-advisory)