CVE-2010-0179

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% 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 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, when the XMLHttpRequestSpy module in the Firebug add-on is used, does not properly handle interaction between the XMLHttpRequestSpy object and chrome privileged objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript via a crafted HTTP response.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.17; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+90)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.2; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+37)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.0.3; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+55)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/3924
http://secunia.com/advisories/39243
http://secunia.com/advisories/39308
http://secunia.com/advisories/39397
http://secunia.com/advisories/42818
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023783
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100124650
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

Get alerted when CVE-2010-0179 or the next vulnerability affects your stack