# CVE-2007-3844: 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 scriptin

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2007-08-08 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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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## References

- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00285.html
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1600
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-503-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:047
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3587
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27414
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388121
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26393
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26303
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4256
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26309
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27298
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:152
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-09.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018481
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1345
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26288
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27327
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27276
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1391
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1346
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0980.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_57_mozilla.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30439

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