VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2007-0996
The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using…
MEDIUM 5.8EPSS 2.06%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.06%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.06% probability · 80th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/seamonkey
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070202-01-P.asc
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070301-01-P.asc
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2713
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2728
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html
- http://osvdb.org/33812
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24205
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24287
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24290
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24320
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24328
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24333
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24342
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24343
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24384
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24395
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24455
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24457
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24650
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25588
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.374851
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1336
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.