CVE-2007-5896 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2007-11-08

Score: 7.1 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2007-5866	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00617.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-11-08T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:47:00.521Z

Reserved: 2007-11-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-5896

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-08T20:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-5896

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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