CVE-2007-0996

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 17 years ago

2007-02-27 02:28:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-16 16:36:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1

1.5.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2

1.5.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3

1.5.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4

1.5.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5

1.5.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6

1.5.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7

1.5.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8

1.5.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9

1.5.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

2.0

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1

2.0.0.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0

1.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0 beta

1.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.1

1.0.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.2

1.0.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.3

1.0.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.4

1.0.4

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.5

1.0.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.6

1.0.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.7

1.0.7

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