CVE-2007-0996

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.5, 1.5-beta1, 1.5-beta2, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3 (+11)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+3)

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/33812
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24205
http://secunia.com/advisories/24287
http://secunia.com/advisories/24290
http://secunia.com/advisories/24320

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