5.8

CVE-2007-0996: mozilla firefox

Modified
Published 27-02-2007Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-0996 is a medium (CVSS 5.8) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 2.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.8, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.8/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.12%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 2
DSA-1336-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1RHSA-2007:0077RHSA-2007:0078RHSA-2007:0079

Timeline

  1. 27-02-2007
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.12%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

82%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 2.12% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Mozilla2 products
  • firefox1.5 | 1.5:beta1 | 1.5:beta2 | 1.5.0.1 | 1.5.0.2 | 1.5.0.3 | 1.5.0.4 | 1.5.0.5 | 1.5.0.6 | 1.5.0.7 | 1.5.0.8 | 1.5.0.9 | 2.0 | 2.0:beta_1 | 2.0:rc2 | 2.0:rc3 | 2.0.0.1
  • seamonkey1.0 | 1.0:beta | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7

1 vendor · 2 products

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