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CVE-2004-0648 (GCVE-0-2004-0648)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-07-13 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:24
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla (Suite) before 1.7.1, Firefox before 0.9.2, and Thunderbird before 0.7.2 allow remote attackers to launch arbitrary programs via a URI referencing the shell: protocol.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vu… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/927014 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-175.shtml third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIAC
http://www.mozilla.org/security/shell.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/12027 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108938712815719&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2004-07-07 00:00
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