CVE-2007-5045

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Apple QuickTime 7.1.5 and earlier, when running on systems with Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.7 installed, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a QuickTime Media Link (QTL) file with an embed XML element and a qtnext parameter containing the Firefox "-chrome" argument. NOTE: this is a related issue to CVE-2006-4965 and the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3670.

Affected products

Apple Installer of QuickTime for Windows: through 7.1.5
Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.6

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://secunia.com/advisories/26881
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201516-1
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/0day-quicktime-pwns-firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-28.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_57_mozilla.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479179/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3197
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395942
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5896
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://secunia.com/advisories/26881

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