VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2007-4038
CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.11%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-07-27
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
Argument injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.5, when running on systems with Thunderbird 1.5 installed and certain URIs registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a mailto URI, which are inserted into the command line that is created when invoking Thunderbird.exe, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.
Weakness classification
- CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')