CVE-2007-0779

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

GUI overlay vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to spoof certain user interface elements, such as the host name or security indicators, via the CSS3 hotspot property with a large, transparent, custom cursor.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9_rc, 0.10 (+29)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+4)

References

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/32109
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24205
http://secunia.com/advisories/24238
http://secunia.com/advisories/24287
http://secunia.com/advisories/24290

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