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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-3844 Detail

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 and before 1.5.0.13, and SeaMonkey 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks with chrome privileges via an addon that inserts a (1) javascript: or (2) data: link into an about:blank document loaded by chrome via (a) the window.open function or (b) a content.location assignment, aka "Cross Context Scripting." NOTE: this issue is caused by a CVE-2007-3089 regression.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/17/2007)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250648 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388121 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26234 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26258 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26288 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26303 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26309 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26331 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26335 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26393 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26460 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26572 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27276 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27298 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27325 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27326 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27327 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27356 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27414 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27680 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28135 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28363 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018479 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018480 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018481 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.010101 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103177-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201516-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/60eb95b75c76f9fbfcc9a89f99cd8f79.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1344 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1345 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1346 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1391 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-09.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:152 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2007:047 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:047 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-26.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_57_mozilla.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0979.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0980.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0981.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475265/100/200/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475450/30/5550/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25142 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Patch 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-493-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-503-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3587 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4256 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1600 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9493 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00498.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00285.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-3844
NVD Published Date:
08/07/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.