CVE-2007-5045

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2007-5045 · Published 24/09/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-5045 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting quicktime (apple), firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.5%, higher than 89.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
quicktime apple	`≤ 7.1.5`	No fix yet
firefox mozilla	`≤ 2.0.0.6`	No fix yet

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Apple QuickTime 7.1.5 and earlier, when running on systems with Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.7 installed, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a QuickTime Media Link (QTL) file with an embed XML element and a qtnext parameter containing the Firefox "-chrome" argument. NOTE: this is a related issue to CVE-2006-4965 and the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3670.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

quicktime

apple

≤ 7.1.5

No fix yet

firefox

mozilla

≤ 2.0.0.6

No fix yet

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