CVE-2007-5337

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5, when running on Linux systems with gnome-vfs support, might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files on SSH/sftp servers that accept key authentication by creating a web page on the target server, in which the web page contains URIs with (1) smb: or (2) sftp: schemes that access other files from the server.

Affected products

Gnome-Vfs: all versions
Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.7
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.4

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://secunia.com/advisories/27276
http://secunia.com/advisories/27298
http://secunia.com/advisories/27325
http://secunia.com/advisories/27327
http://secunia.com/advisories/27335
http://secunia.com/advisories/27336
http://secunia.com/advisories/27356
http://secunia.com/advisories/27360
http://secunia.com/advisories/27383
http://secunia.com/advisories/27387
http://secunia.com/advisories/27403

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