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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-3670 Detail

Current Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, when running on systems with Firefox installed and certain URIs registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a (1) FirefoxURL or (2) FirefoxHTML URI, which are inserted into the command line that is created when invoking firefox.exe. NOTE: it has been debated as to whether the issue is in Internet Explorer or Firefox. As of 20070711, it is CVE's opinion that IE appears to be failing to properly delimit the URL argument when invoking Firefox, and this issue could arise with other protocol handlers in IE as well. However, Mozilla has stated that it will address the issue with a "defense in depth" fix that will "prevent IE from sending Firefox malicious data."


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Evaluator Impact

Successful exploit requires that Mozilla Firefox is installed.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/ChangeLog.txt CVE, MITRE
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-07/0160.html CVE, MITRE
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/07/10/security-issue-in-url-protocol-handling-on-windows/ CVE, MITRE
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 CVE, MITRE
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579 CVE, MITRE
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=565 CVE, MITRE
http://larholm.com/2007/07/10/internet-explorer-0day-exploit/ CVE, MITRE
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/07/10/blocking-the-firefox-gt-ie-0-day.aspx CVE, MITRE
http://osvdb.org/38017 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25984 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26096 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26149 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26204 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26216 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26258 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26271 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26572 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28179 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/28363 CVE, MITRE
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/07d098f99c9fe6956523beae37f32fda.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/358017 CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:152 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-23.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-40.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_49_mozilla.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473276/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24837 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018351 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018360 CVE, MITRE
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/11/ie_firefox_vuln/ CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-503-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-199A.html CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/virus_news/2007/07_11.xml CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2473 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2565 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4272 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082 CVE, MITRE
http://www.xs-sniper.com/sniperscope/IE-Pwns-Firefox.html CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35346 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-3670
NVD Published Date:
07/10/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE