XSS in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2010-2768
Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 do not properly restrict use of the type attribute of an OBJECT element to set a document's charset, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via UTF-7 encoding.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.021 (79.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.0.8, 1.5.0.5, 3.0.4
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0.9, 1.1.1, 1.1.12
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 3.1.2, 0.6, 1.5.0.5
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)