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Argument injection vulnerability involving Mozilla, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an unspecified URI, which are inserted into the command line when invoking the handling process, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670

Published Jul 27, 2007

Description

Argument injection vulnerability involving Mozilla, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an unspecified URI, which are inserted into the command line when invoking the handling process, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of Firefox or Thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jul 27, 2007
Updated Apr 3, 2025
Reserved Jul 27, 2007
Link CVE-2007-4039
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Apr 3, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2007-4039
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2007-4039