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CVE-2010-3178

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% 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-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 do not properly handle certain modal calls made by javascript: URLs in circumstances related to opening a new window and performing cross-domain navigation, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted HTML document.

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)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.0.8; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+66)

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/100120156
• http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2124
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:210
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:211
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-69.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0782.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0861.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0896.html

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