CVE-2010-0162

medium
Published 2010-02-22 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly support the application/octet-stream content type as a protection mechanism against execution of web script in certain circumstances involving SVG and the EMBED element, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an embedded SVG document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.7
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.1
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.15
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.17
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.9
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.15
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.16
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.17

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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