CVE-2007-3656

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 1.8.0.13 and 1.8.1.x before 1.8.1.5 does not perform a security zone check when processing a wyciwyg URI, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, poison the browser cache, and possibly enable further attack vectors via (1) HTTP 302 redirect controls, (2) XMLHttpRequest, or (3) view-source URIs.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+25)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffcache/
http://osvdb.org/38028
http://secunia.com/advisories/25589
http://secunia.com/advisories/25990
http://secunia.com/advisories/26072
http://secunia.com/advisories/26103
http://secunia.com/advisories/26107
http://secunia.com/advisories/26149
http://secunia.com/advisories/26151

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