CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0996

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-02-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-02-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox 1.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.8 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.9 • mozilla firefox 2.0 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.1 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.2 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.3 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.4 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.5 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.6 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.7

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