CVE-2007-6589
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 1.1%EU EUVD
The jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.10 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.7 does not update the origin domain when retrieving the inner URL parameter yields an HTTP redirect, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a jar: URI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5947.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 1.1% (65th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6555)
- Published
- December 28, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6555 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
References
- http://blog.beford.org/?p=8
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://osvdb.org/43477
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-37.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369814
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403331
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6033
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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