CVE-2007-1970 — Mozilla Firefox does not warn the user about HTTP elements on an HTTPS page when the HTTP elements are dynamically created by a delayed document.write, which allows remote attackers to supply unauthenticated content and conduct phishing attacks

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Mozilla Firefox does not warn the user about HTTP elements on an HTTPS page when the HTTP elements are dynamically created by a delayed document.write, which allows remote attackers to supply unauthenticated content and conduct phishing attacks

Published Apr 11, 2007

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.93%

Description

Mozilla Firefox does not warn the user about HTTP elements on an HTTPS page when the HTTP elements are dynamically created by a delayed document.write, which allows remote attackers to supply unauthenticated content and conduct phishing attacks.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.93% 0.00934

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00934

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.93% (0.00934)	59.34th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.93% (0.00934)	55.94th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.25% (0.00250)	46.42th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.27% (0.00268)	68.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 22, 2024	0.25% (0.00251)	65.04th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 6, 2024	0.25% (0.00251)	63.00th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 13, 2023	0.24% (0.00238)	61.29th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.27% (0.00269)	62.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://osvdb.org/34536
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464719/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Link	Providers	Tags
http://osvdb.org/34536		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464719/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Apr 11, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Apr 10, 2007

Link CVE-2007-1970

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-1970

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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