CVE-2007-0981
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 12.5%EU EUVD
Mozilla based browsers, including Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8, allow remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy, steal cookies, and conduct other attacks by writing a URI with a null byte to the hostname (location.hostname) DOM property, due to interactions with DNS resolver code.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 12.5% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-0975)
- Published
- February 16, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0975 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
and 1 more…
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070202-01-P.asc
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070301-01-P.asc
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2713
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2728
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://lcamtuf.dione.cc/ffhostname.html(Exploit)
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24175(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24205(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24238(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24287(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24290(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24293(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24320(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24328(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24333(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24342(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24343(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24384(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24393(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24395(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24437(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24455(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24457(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24650(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25588
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-04.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2262
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017654
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.374851
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1336
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-08.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/885753(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-07.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/32104
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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