CVE-2007-3845

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% 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 before 2.0.0.6, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.13 and 2.x before 2.0.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via certain vectors associated with launching "a file handling program based on the file extension at the end of the URI," a variant of CVE-2007-4041. NOTE: the vendor states that "it is still possible to launch a filetype handler based on extension rather than the registered protocol handler."

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=389580
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/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/26572
http://secunia.com/advisories/27326

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