CVE-2007-5947

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-11-14
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

The jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.10 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.7 retrieves the inner URL regardless of its MIME type, and considers HTML documents within a jar archive to have the same origin as the inner URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a jar: URI.

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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-2007-1084	2007-11-27
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2007-1082	2007-11-27
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2007-1083	2007-12-19
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2007-1082	2007-11-27