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CVE-2007-4041

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—

Multiple argument injection vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 and 3.0alpha allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a NULL byte (%00) and shell metacharacters in a (1) mailto, (2) nntp, (3) news, (4) snews, or (5) telnet URI, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (2)

Microsoft — Internet ExplorerMozilla — Firefox

CWEs

References

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