CVE-2007-5896

medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via an iframe with Javascript that sets the document.location to contain a leading NULL byte (\x00) and a (1) res://, (2) about:config, or (3) file:/// URI.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38233

http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2007-11/msg00094.html

http://www.0x000000.com/index.php?i=467&bin=111010011

http://osvdb.org/45296

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-11-08

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00617