CVE-2007-4038

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.

🔗 References (8)

• cve@mitrehttp://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
• cve@mitrehttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
• cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
• cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threaded
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threaded