Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2010-1990

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.19, and earlier, and SeaMonkey, executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.0.3, 3.0.13, 3.0.6
Mozilla Seamonkey
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)