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CVE-2007-1562

37
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-1562 describes a vulnerability in the FTP protocol implementation of Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 1.5.0.11 and 2.0.0.3. This flaw allows a remote attacker to manipulate the client into connecting to arbitrary servers, conduct a proxied port scan, or extract sensitive information by injecting an alternate server address within an FTP PASV response. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this medium-complexity network-based attack could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry exists, and the vulnerability has received minimal community or media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.5, < 1.5.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0, < 2.0.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.06CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
6.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
13.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-29768 · Mar 21, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1385 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.1.el2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.1.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.12-0.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.10-0.8.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-2.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.12-11.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.12-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: yelp-0:2.16.0-15.el5
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mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-1562Low

security flaw

Mar 22, 2007

References

bindshell.net / papers/ftppasv/ftp-client-pasv-manipulation.pdf
Broken Link
h20000.www2.hp.com / bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp
Broken Link
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25476
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25490
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25858
Third Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/33119
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1157
Broken Link
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1424
Broken Link
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11431
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-11.html
Vendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_36_mozilla.html
Broken Link
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/12/09/1
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0400.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0402.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/463501/100/0/threaded
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / archive/1/470172/100/200/threaded
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/23082
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-443-1
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1034
Third Party Advisory