CVE-2007-3845
Mozilla: Unescaped URIs passed to external programs
Severity
CriticalRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · July 30, 2008
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
Jesper Johansson pointed out that Mozilla did not percent-encode spaces and double-quotes in URIs handed off to external programs for handling, which can cause the receiving program to mistakenly interpret a single URI as multiple arguments. The danger depends on the arguments supported by the specific receiving program, though at the very least we know Firefox (and Thunderbird) 2.0.0.4 and older could be used to run arbitrary script (see MFSA 2007-23). The vast majority of programs do not have dangerous arguments, though many could still be made to do something unexpected.
Statement
Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of Firefox or Thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-150 · Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences