CVE-2007-5339

Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted HTML that triggers memory corruption or assert errors.

Published: 2007-10-21 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-5339 is rated Moderate Risk (42.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.43%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-5339

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 20.93% 3.43% -17.50%
2 2026-06-09 20.30% 20.93% +0.63%
3 2026-02-26 20.30%

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-5339

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-5339

OS Trackers for CVE-2007-5339

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2007-5339: 2 GLSA(s) (200711-14, 200711-24), 7 atom(s) (mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird, mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin, …); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2007-5339
redhat critical https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5339
ubuntu medium CVE-2007-5339 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (firefox, mozilla-thunderbird, thunderbird), 11 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, upstream): released 10, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-5339

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-5339

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox <= 2.0.0.7 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla seamonkey <= 1.1.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird <= 2.0.0.6 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-5339

URL Tags
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196481
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579
http://secunia.com/advisories/27276
http://secunia.com/advisories/27298
http://secunia.com/advisories/27311
http://secunia.com/advisories/27313
http://secunia.com/advisories/27315
http://secunia.com/advisories/27325
http://secunia.com/advisories/27326
http://secunia.com/advisories/27327
http://secunia.com/advisories/27335
http://secunia.com/advisories/27336
http://secunia.com/advisories/27356
http://secunia.com/advisories/27360
http://secunia.com/advisories/27383
http://secunia.com/advisories/27387
http://secunia.com/advisories/27403
http://secunia.com/advisories/27414
http://secunia.com/advisories/27425
http://secunia.com/advisories/27480
http://secunia.com/advisories/27665
http://secunia.com/advisories/27680
http://secunia.com/advisories/27704
http://secunia.com/advisories/27744
http://secunia.com/advisories/28179
http://secunia.com/advisories/28363
http://secunia.com/advisories/28398
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-24.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018834
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018835
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.471007
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231441-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201516-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1018977.1-1
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/60eb95b75c76f9fbfcc9a89f99cd8f79.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1391
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1392
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1396
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1401
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-14.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/559977 US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:202
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2007:047
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:047
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-29.html Patch
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_57_mozilla.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0979.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0980.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0981.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482876/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482925/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482932/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26132
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-536-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3544
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3545
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3587
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4272
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0643
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=309322%2C330563%2C341858%2C344064%2C348126%2C354645%2C361745%2C362901%2C378670%2C378682%2C379799%2C382376%2C384105%2C386382%2C386914%2C387033%2C387460%2C387844%2C391974%2C392285%2C393770%2C394014%2C394418
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37281
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1858
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1884
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10459
https://usn.ubuntu.com/535-1/
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00498.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00285.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00355.html
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