CVE-2007-5960

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.10 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.7 sets the Referer header to the window or frame in which script is running, instead of the address of the content that initiated the script, which allows remote attackers to spoof HTTP Referer headers and bypass Referer-based CSRF protection schemes by setting window.location and using a modal alert dialog that causes the wrong Referer to be sent.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.10 (+45)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.7

References

http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200909
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27725
http://secunia.com/advisories/27793
http://secunia.com/advisories/27796
http://secunia.com/advisories/27797
http://secunia.com/advisories/27800
http://secunia.com/advisories/27816
http://secunia.com/advisories/27838

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