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CVE-2007-4041

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 19.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Multiple argument injection vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 and 3.0alpha allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a NULL byte (%00) and shell metacharacters in a (1) mailto, (2) nntp, (3) news, (4) snews, or (5) telnet URI, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 7
• Mozilla Firefox: 2.0.0.5, 3.0-alpha

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/783400
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25053
• http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2007/07/24/remote-command-execution-in-firefox-2005/
• http://xs-sniper.com/blog/remote-command-exec-firefox-2005/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389106
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389580
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/783400
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25053
• http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2007/07/24/remote-command-execution-in-firefox-2005/
• http://xs-sniper.com/blog/remote-command-exec-firefox-2005/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389106
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389580

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