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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…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.1%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% 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 (14)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579744 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2010:049 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-14362 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100110210 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-61.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100112690 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 42867 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0061 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MDVSA-2010:173 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2323 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 43101 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-2106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11735 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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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