CVE-2010-0162

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-02-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly support the application/octet-stream content type as a protection mechanism against execution of web script in certain circumstances involving SVG and the EMBED element, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an embedded SVG document.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.0, 3.0-alpha, 3.0-beta2, 3.0-beta5, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 (+22)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+33)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37242
http://secunia.com/advisories/38847
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1999
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:042
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-05.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-895-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-896-1

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