5.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-0996

Published: 27/02/2007 Updated: 16/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 516
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The child frames in Mozilla Firefox prior to 1.5.0.10 and 2.x prior to 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey prior to 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote malicious users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

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mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1

mozilla firefox 2.0

mozilla seamonkey 1.0.5

mozilla seamonkey 1.0.6

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4

mozilla firefox 1.5

mozilla seamonkey 1.0.3

mozilla seamonkey 1.0.4

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.8

mozilla seamonkey 1.0

mozilla seamonkey 1.0.7

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.9

mozilla seamonkey 1.0.1

mozilla seamonkey 1.0.2

Vendor Advisories

Several flaws have been found that could be used to perform Cross-site scripting attacks A malicious web site could exploit these to modify the contents or steal confidential data (such as passwords) from other opened web pages (CVE-2006-6077, CVE-2007-0780, CVE-2007-0800, CVE-2007-0981, CVE-2007-0995, CVE-2007-0996) ...
USN-428-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox 15 However, changes to library paths caused applications depending on libnss3 to fail to start up This update fixes the problem ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox This will be the last security update of Mozilla-based products for the oldstable (sarge) distribution of Debian We recommend to upgrade to stable (etch) as soon as possible The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2007-1 ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-02 Improvements to help protect against Cross-Site Scripting attacks Announced February 23, 2007 Reporter various Impact Low Products Firefox, SeaMonkey Fixed in ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.htmlhttp://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.htmlhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1103http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2713http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2728http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.htmlhttp://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-428-1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22694http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017702http://secunia.com/advisories/24287http://secunia.com/advisories/24290http://secunia.com/advisories/24205http://secunia.com/advisories/24328http://secunia.com/advisories/24333http://secunia.com/advisories/24343http://secunia.com/advisories/24320http://secunia.com/advisories/24395http://secunia.com/advisories/24384ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070301-01-P.aschttp://secunia.com/advisories/24650http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1336http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070202-01-P.aschttp://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.374851http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24455http://secunia.com/advisories/24457http://secunia.com/advisories/24342http://secunia.com/advisories/25588http://osvdb.org/33812http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0718http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10086http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threadedhttps://nvd.nist.govhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/428-1/