XSS in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2007-5947
The jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.10 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.7 retrieves the inner URL regardless of its MIME type, and considers HTML documents within a jar archive to have the same origin as the inner URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a jar: URI.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/27816 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/
- secunia.com/advisories/27855 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1424 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-21.xml (vendor-advisory)
- wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0260
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1995
- secunia.com/advisories/28277 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-37.html (Vendor Advisory)