CVE-2010-1197

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.10 and 3.6.x before 3.6.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.5, does not properly handle situations in which both "Content-Disposition: attachment" and "Content-Type: multipart" are present in HTTP headers, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an uploaded HTML document.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 (+6)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.4; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+39)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043369.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043405.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40326
http://secunia.com/advisories/40401
http://secunia.com/advisories/40481
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100091069
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-930-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:125
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-32.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0499.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0500.html

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