CVE-2007-5337: Gnome Gnome-Vfs

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5, when running on Linux systems with gnome-vfs support, might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files on SSH/sftp servers that accept key authentication by creating a web page on the target server, in which the web page contains URIs with (1) smb: or (2) sftp: schemes that access other files from the server.

Affected products

• Gnome Gnome-Vfs: any version
• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 2.0.0.7
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 1.1.4

Published 2007-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.