CVE-2007-5045

high

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Apple QuickTime 7.1.5 and earlier, when running on systems with Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.7 installed, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a QuickTime Media Link (QTL) file with an embed XML element and a qtnext parameter containing the Firefox "-chrome" argument. NOTE: this is a related issue to CVE-2006-4965 and the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3670.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5896

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395942

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3197

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479179/100/0/threaded

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_57_mozilla.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-28.html

http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/0day-quicktime-pwns-firefox

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201516-1

http://secunia.com/advisories/26881

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-09-24

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

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

Severity: High

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: 0.01798