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CVE-2010-0181
Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.9 and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, executes a mail application in situations where an IMG…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.2%
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- mitre
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.9 and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, executes a mail application in situations where an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (13)
- 39397 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452093 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 39136 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-921-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20100518 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera and other browsers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MDVSA-2010:070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- firefox-mailto-weak-security(57395) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6776 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-23.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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
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)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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