CVE-2007-5338

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% 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-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary Javascript with user privileges by using the Script object to modify XPCNativeWrappers in a way that causes the script to be executed when a chrome action is performed.

Affected products

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/27311
http://secunia.com/advisories/27315
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

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