cve-2007-4038
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-07-27 22:00
Modified
2024-08-07 14:37
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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