PT-2010-1993

CVE-2010-0179

Published

2010-03-30

Updated

2018-10-30

Description by

CVSS 2.0

5.1

Medium

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.19 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x prior to 3.5.8 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.3

Description The issue arises from improper handling of interaction between the XMLHttpRequestSpy object and chrome privileged objects when the XMLHttpRequestSpy module in the Firebug add-on is used. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript via a crafted HTTP response.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.19, update to version 3.0.19 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x prior to 3.5.8, 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

Moz_Bug_R_A4

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code (\'Code Injection\')

Related identifiers

CVE-2010-0179

DSA-2027-1