CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-3670

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2007-07-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-07-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

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."

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 6 • microsoft internet explorer 7.0 • mozilla firefox

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References