Cross-zone vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9 considers blocked popups to have an…
Priority LOW 24Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- — Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
- Attack complexity
- Medium
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Partial · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
Cross-zone vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9 considers blocked popups to have an internal zone origin, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cross zone restrictions and read arbitrary file:// URIs by convincing a user to show a blocked popup.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.0177 78th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 5 advisories
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
Red Hat 5 advisories
- RHSA-2007:0097 Released 2007-03-14 · Red Hat rating Criticalfirefox security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) devhelp-0.12-10.0.1.el5, devhelp-0.12-10.0.1.el5.i386, devhelp-0.12-10.0.1.el5.ia64 +13
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) devhelp-0.12-10.0.1.el5, devhelp-0.12-10.0.1.el5.i386, firefox-1.5.0.10-2.el5 +3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) devhelp-0.12-10.0.1.el5, devhelp-devel-0.12-10.0.1.el5, devhelp-devel-0.12-10.0.1.el5.i386
- RHSA-2007:0108 Released 2007-03-14 · Red Hat rating Criticalthunderbird security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) thunderbird-1.5.0.10-1.el5, thunderbird-1.5.0.10-1.el5.i386
- RHSA-2007:0078 Released 2007-03-02 · Red Hat rating Criticalthunderbird security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4, thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.i386, thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.ia64 +1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4, thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4, thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.i386, thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4, thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.i386, thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.ia64
Show 2 more Red Hat advisories
- RHSA-2007:0077 Released 2007-02-24 · Red Hat rating Criticalseamonkey security update
- Red Hat Desktop version 3 seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3.i386, seamonkey-chat-1.0.8-0.2.el3 +17
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2.i386, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2.ia64 +18
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3.i386, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3.ia64 +37
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4, devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4.i386, devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4.ppc +27
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4, devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4.i386, devhelp-devel-0.10-0.7.el4 +13
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2.i386, seamonkey-chat-1.0.8-0.2.el2.i386 +8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3.i386, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3.ia64 +27
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4, devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4.i386, devhelp-devel-0.10-0.7.el4 +19
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2.i386, seamonkey-chat-1.0.8-0.2.el2.i386 +8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3.i386, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el3.ia64 +27
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4, devhelp-0.10-0.7.el4.i386, devhelp-devel-0.10-0.7.el4 +19
- Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2, seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el2.ia64, seamonkey-chat-1.0.8-0.2.el2.ia64 +8
- RHSA-2007:0079 Released 2007-02-23 · Red Hat rating CriticalFirefox security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4, firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.i386, firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.ia64 +1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4, firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4, firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.i386, firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4, firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.i386, firefox-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.ia64
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Desktop version 3 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0097 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077, RHSA-2007:0078, RHSA-2007:0079 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0097, RHSA-2007:0108 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0097 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077, RHSA-2007:0078, RHSA-2007:0079 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077, RHSA-2007:0078, RHSA-2007:0079 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077, RHSA-2007:0078, RHSA-2007:0079 |
| Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 | Fixed | RHSA-2007:0077 |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2007-0800
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-43j5-m4qg-whf7
References
Advisory 15
Other 9
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-05.html
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10654
- ADV-2007-0718
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1103
- ADV-2008-0083
- 20070205 Re: Firefox + popup blocker + XMLHttpRequest + srand() = oops
- 32108
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1081
- 20070205 Firefox + popup blocker + XMLHttpRequest + srand() = oops
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Sources
- CVE-2007-0800 · CVE Program
- CVE-2007-0800 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-43j5-m4qg-whf7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2007-0800 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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