CVE-2007-4038

high

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.5, when running on systems with Thunderbird 1.5 installed and certain URIs registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a mailto URI, which are inserted into the command line that is created when invoking Thunderbird.exe, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html

http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-07-27

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00382