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CVE-2007-4960

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the Linden Lab Second Life secondlife:// protocol handler, as used in Internet Explorer and possibly Firefox, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a '" ' (double-quote space) sequence followed by the -autologin and -loginuri arguments, which cause the handler to post login credentials and software installation details to an arbitrary URL.

Affected products

• Linden Lab Second Life: 1

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/26845
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/ie-pwns-secondlife
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479698/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3188
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36651
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26845
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/ie-pwns-secondlife
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479698/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3188
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36651

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