CVE-2007-3844
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 and before 1.5.0.13, and SeaMonkey 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks with chrome privileges via an addon that inserts a (1) javascript: or (2) data: link into an…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 5.4%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 and before 1.5.0.13, and SeaMonkey 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks with chrome privileges via an addon that inserts a (1) javascript: or (2) data: link into an about:blank document loaded by chrome via (a) the window.open function or (b) a content.location assignment, aka "Cross Context Scripting." NOTE: this issue is caused by a CVE-2007-3089 regression.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 5.45% probability · 93th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 31 July 2007
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/seamonkey · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 5.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388121
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26234
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26258
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26288Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26303
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26309
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26331
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26335
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26393
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26460
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26572
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27276
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27298
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27325
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27326
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27327
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27356
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27414
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27680
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28135
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28363
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018479
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018480
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018481Patch
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.010101
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103177-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201516-1
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/60eb95b75c76f9fbfcc9a89f99cd8f79.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.