CVE-2007-5337
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5, when running on Linux systems with gnome-vfs support, might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files on SSH/sftp servers that accept key authentication by creating a web page on the target server, in which the web page contains URIs with (1) smb: or (2) sftp: schemes that access other files from the server.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 2.4% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5316)
- Published
- October 21, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5316 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnome / gnome-vfs
- linux / linux kernel
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
References
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27276
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27298
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27325
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27327
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27335
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27336
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27356
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27360
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27383
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27387
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27403
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27414
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27425
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27480
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27665
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27680
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28398
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018837
- 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-1392
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1396
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1401
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-14.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:202
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-34.html(Patch)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_57_mozilla.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0979.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0980.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0981.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482876/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482925/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482932/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26132
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-536-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3544
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3587
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381146
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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