CVE-2010-0181

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% 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-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.9 and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, executes a mail application in situations where an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.7; 3.6, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 (+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/39397
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-921-1
http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-23.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0748
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0849
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452093
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57395

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