CVE-2007-4841
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a (1) mailto, (2) nntp, (3) news, or (4) snews URI with invalid "%" encoding, related to improper file type handling on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7 installed, a variant of CVE-2007-3845.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.6% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4822)
- Published
- September 12, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4822 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://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/27311(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27315(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27360(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27414(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27744(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28363(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28398(Vendor Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.471007
- http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:202
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-36.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25543
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3544(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083(Vendor Advisory)
- http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2007/09/01/firefox-file-handling-woes/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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