CVE-2007-3844

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-08-08
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 and before 1.5.0.13, and SeaMonkey 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks with chrome privileges via an addon that inserts a (1) javascript: or (2) data: link into an about:blank document loaded by chrome via (a) the window.open function or (b) a content.location assignment, aka Cross Context Scripting. NOTE: this issue is caused by a CVE-2007-3089 regression.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2007-0980	2007-10-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2007-0979	2007-10-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2007-0980	2007-10-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2007-0981	2007-10-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2007-0979	2007-10-20