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CVE-2007-0802

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.4)—

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 allows remote attackers to bypass the Phishing Protection mechanism by adding certain characters to the end of the domain name, as demonstrated by the "." and "/" characters, which is not caught by the Phishing List blacklist filter.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Mozilla — FirefoxOpera — Opera Browser

CWEs

References

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