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CVE-2007-0780

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

browser.js 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 uses the requesting URI to identify child windows, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by opening a blocked popup originating from a javascript: URI in combination with multiple frames having the same data: URI.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 5.10, 6.06, 6.10
• Mozilla Firefox: from 1.5 before 1.5.0.10; from 2.0 before 2.0.0.2 — fixed in 1.5.0.10, 2.0.0.2
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 1.0.8 — fixed in 1.0.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.10, 2.0.0.2; Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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://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
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24293

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