CVE-2007-3844
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 and before 1.5.0.13, and SeaMonkey 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks with chrome privileges via an addon that inserts a (1) javascript: or (2) data: link into an about:blank document loaded by chrome via (a) the window.open function or (b) a content.location assignment, aka "Cross Context Scripting." NOTE: this issue is caused by a CVE-2007-3089 regression.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- EPSS score
- 5.4% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-3828)
- Published
- August 8, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-3828 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388121
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26234
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26258
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26288(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26303
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26309
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26331
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26335
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26393
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26460
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26572
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27276
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27298
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27325
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27326
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27327
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27356
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27414
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27680
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28135
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28363
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018479
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018480
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018481(Patch)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.010101
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103177-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201516-1
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/60eb95b75c76f9fbfcc9a89f99cd8f79.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1344
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1345
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1346
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1391
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-09.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:152
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2007:047
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:047
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-26.html(Patch)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_57_mozilla.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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