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CVE-2007-5947

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2007-11-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.10 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.7 retrieves the inner URL regardless of its MIME type, and considers HTML documents within a jar archive to have the same origin as the inner URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a jar: URI.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Seamonkey

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References