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CVE-2010-0178
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, does not prevent applets from…
High7.6EPSS 3.4%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, does not prevent applets from interpreting mouse clicks as drag-and-drop actions, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with Chrome privileges by loading a chrome: URL and then loading a javascript: URL.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (20)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546909 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 39397 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 39308 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 39136 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0781 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- USN-921-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 1023776 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-20.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0764 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- firefox-draganddrop-code-execution(57391) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- MDVSA-2010:070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10460 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 39243 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6975 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0748 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0849 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- DSA-2027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0332 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 39240 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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