4.3

CVE-2007-4038: mozilla firefox Improper Control of Generation of Code

Modified
Published 27-07-2007Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-4038 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Improper Control of Generation of Code vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.3, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.11%
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 1
DSA-1338-1

Timeline

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

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.5, when running on systems with Thunderbird 1.5 installed and certain URIs registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a mailto URI, which are inserted into the command line that is created when invoking Thunderbird.exe, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.11%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

66%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.11% 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

Affected systems

Version check

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

Mozilla2 products

1 vendor · 2 products

References

4 links