CVE-2007-3844

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 and before 1.5.0.13, and SeaMonkey 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks with chrome privileges via an addon that inserts a (1) javascript: or (2) data: link into an about:blank document loaded by chrome via (a) the window.open function or (b) a content.location assignment, aka "Cross Context Scripting." NOTE: this issue is caused by a CVE-2007-3089 regression.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 2.0.0.5
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.1.3
Mozilla Thunderbird: 2.0.0.5

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388121
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579
http://secunia.com/advisories/26234
http://secunia.com/advisories/26258
http://secunia.com/advisories/26288
http://secunia.com/advisories/26303
http://secunia.com/advisories/26309
http://secunia.com/advisories/26331
http://secunia.com/advisories/26335
http://secunia.com/advisories/26393
http://secunia.com/advisories/26460

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