CVE-2007-0996
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.8EPSS 2.1%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- EPSS score
- 2.1% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-0990)
- Published
- February 27, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0990 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 / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
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://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html
- http://osvdb.org/33812
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24205
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24287
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24290
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24320
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24328
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24333
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24342
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24343
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24384
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24395
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24455
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24457
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24650
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25588
- 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.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22694
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017702
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-428-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0718
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1103
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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