CVE-2007-5896

HighCVSS 7.1/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via an iframe with Javascript that sets the document.location to contain a leading NULL byte (\x00) and a (1) res://, (2) about:config, or (3) file:/// URI.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.1/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 8, 2007
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2007-5896: High severity, CVSS 7.1 | Vulnix