Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-4039

Title: Mozilla RCE

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-4039.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jul 27, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-4039: Argument injection vulnerability involving Mozilla, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an unspecified URI, which are inserted into the command line when invoking the handling process, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 1

Reference Links

http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/ http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/ http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-4039 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 27, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.