CVE-2007-0996: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 1.5 only; version 1.5.0.1 only; version 1.5.0.2 only; version 1.5.0.3 only; version 1.5.0.4 only; version 1.5.0.5 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; …

Published 2007-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.