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CVE-2007-0779

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-0779 describes a GUI overlay vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8. This flaw allows remote attackers to spoof user interface elements, like hostnames or security indicators, by manipulating CSS3 hotspot properties with large, transparent custom cursors. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9_rcCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9_rc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0155 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.8-0.2.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.10-0.7.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.8-0.2.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.10-0.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.8-0.2.el2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.12-10.0.1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.10-2.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: yelp-0:2.16.0-14.0.1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.10-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.10-0.1.el4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-0779Moderate

security flaw

Feb 23, 2007

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20070202-01-P.asc
patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20070301-01-P.asc
fedoranews.org / cms/node/2713
fedoranews.org / cms/node/2728
h20000.www2.hp.com / bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp
lists.suse.com / archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html
osvdb.org / 32109
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/24205
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24238
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24287
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24290
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24293
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24320
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24328
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24333
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24342
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24343
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24384
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24393
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24395
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24437
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24455
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24457
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24650
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200703-04.xml
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1081
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1103
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8757
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-08.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-04.html
PatchVendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/461809/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/22694
Patch
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-428-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0718
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0083