CVE-2007-1084

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 and earlier does not prompt users before saving bookmarklets, which allows remote attackers to bypass the same-domain policy by tricking a user into saving a bookmarklet with a data: scheme, which is executed in the context of the last visited web page.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.1; 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.10 (+23)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-02/0490.html
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffbook
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffbook/
http://osvdb.org/33803
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2304
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/85728
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460885/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460890/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460896/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461021/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22666
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371179

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