CVE-2007-4841

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a (1) mailto, (2) nntp, (3) news, or (4) snews URI with invalid "%" encoding, related to improper file type handling on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7 installed, a variant of CVE-2007-3845.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.8
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.5
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.8

References

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/27311
http://secunia.com/advisories/27315
http://secunia.com/advisories/27360
http://secunia.com/advisories/27414
http://secunia.com/advisories/27744
http://secunia.com/advisories/28363
http://secunia.com/advisories/28398
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.471007
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:202
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-36.html

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