RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2010-1121
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.3 does not properly manage the scopes of DOM nodes that are moved from one document to another, which allows remote attackers to conduct use-after-free attacks and execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving improper interaction with garbage collection, as demonstrated by Nils during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2010.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.057 (92.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 92.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.058 · newest: 0.057 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.6.2, 3.6.1, 3.6
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043369.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043405.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00005.html (vendor-advisory)
- news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html
- secunia.com/advisories/40323 (third-party-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/40326 (third-party-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/40401 (third-party-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/40481 (third-party-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100091069