CVE-2010-0178

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-04-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, does not prevent applets from interpreting mouse clicks as drag-and-drop actions, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with Chrome privileges by loading a chrome: URL and then loading a javascript: URL.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.17; 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 (+91)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.3; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+39)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39136
http://secunia.com/advisories/39240
http://secunia.com/advisories/39243
http://secunia.com/advisories/39308
http://secunia.com/advisories/39397
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023776
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-921-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2027
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-20.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0332.html

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