Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2007-4038

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.5, when running on systems with Thunderbird 1.5 installed and certain URIs registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a mailto URI, which are inserted into the command line that is created when invoking Thunderbird.exe, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

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Affected products

Mozilla Corporation/Firefox2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=2.0.0.4
- (no CPE)range: <2.0.0.5
Mozilla Corporation/Thunderbird
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/nvd
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.htmlnvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474624/100/0/threadednvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474686/100/0/threadednvd

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