CVE-2010-3177

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: 2010-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Gopher parser in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted name of a (1) file or (2) directory on a Gopher server.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.13; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+88)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.8; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+46)

References

http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050077.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050154.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100114250
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100120156
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2124
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:210
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-68.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0781.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0782.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0861.html

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