PT-2010-1976

CVE-2010-0162

Published

2010-02-17

Updated

2017-09-19

Description by

CVSS 2.0

4.3

Medium

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.x through 3.0.17 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x through 3.5.7 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an embedded SVG document, due to improper support for the application/octet-stream content type as a protection mechanism against execution of web script in certain circumstances involving SVG and the EMBED element.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.x through 3.0.17, update to version 3.0.18 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x through 3.5.7, update to version 3.5.8 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.3, update to version 2.0.3 or later.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Georgi Guninski

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (\'Cross-site Scripting\')

Related identifiers

CVE-2010-0162

DSA-1999-1