Vulnerability in Mozilla

CVE-2007-1794

The Javascript engine in Mozilla 1.7 and earlier on Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving garbage collection that causes deletion of a temporary object that is still being used. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2006-3805.

Published 2007-04-02 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.043 (90.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.043 · newest: 0.043 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mozilla
Sun Solaris — versions 10.0
Sun Sunos — versions 5.8, 5.9

References

sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/24624 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1178 (vdb-entry)