CVE-2007-5896

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via an iframe with Javascript that sets the document.location to contain a leading NULL byte (\x00) and a (1) res://, (2) about:config, or (3) file:/// URI.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 2.0.0.9

References

http://osvdb.org/45296
http://www.0x000000.com/index.php?i=467&bin=111010011
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2007-11/msg00094.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38233
http://osvdb.org/45296
http://www.0x000000.com/index.php?i=467&bin=111010011
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2007-11/msg00094.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38233

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