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CVE-2010-2117

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.19, 3.5.x, and 3.6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via JavaScript code containing an infinite loop that creates IFRAME elements for invalid (1) news:// or (2) nntp:// URIs.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 3.0.19, 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4 (+5)

References

• http://websecurity.com.ua/4238/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511509/100/0/threaded
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11190
• http://websecurity.com.ua/4238/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511509/100/0/threaded
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11190

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