Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after a certain number of characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication
Published Jun 11, 2007
6.4
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.23%
Description
Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after a certain number of characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Not vulnerable. Mozilla is no longer shipped as part of any version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Mozilla was replaced by SeaMonkey in Red Hat Enterprise Linux by SeaMonkey which is not affected by this issue.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
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 (15 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.23% (0.01234) | 67.93th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.23% (0.01234) | 65.02th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.45% (0.00448) | 61.45th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 3.15% (0.03153) | 90.90th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 14, 2024 | 2.08% (0.02078) | 88.89th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2024 | 1.90% (0.01901) | 88.19th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 29, 2024 | 1.12% (0.01119) | 83.06th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 22, 2023 | 0.93% (0.00930) | 81.22th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 6, 2023 | 0.89% (0.00892) | 80.78th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 17, 2023 | 1.03% (0.01025) | 81.72th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.95% (0.00947) | 80.77th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.22th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 64.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 40.54th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
No CWE recorded.
References (8)
- http://osvdb.org/43466 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://testing.bitsploit.de/test.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.0x000000.com/?i=334 x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24352 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-3144 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34983 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3144
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3144
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://osvdb.org/43466 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB | |
| http://testing.bitsploit.de/test.html | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://www.0x000000.com/?i=334 | x_refsource_MISCExploit | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24352 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-3144 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34983 | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3144 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3144 |
Change history (0)
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