VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0171

medium
Published 2010-03-25 · Modified 2026-04-29
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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, 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2; Thunderbird before 3.0.2; and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3 allow remote attackers to perform cross-origin keystroke capture, and possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by using the addEventListener and setTimeout functions in conjunction with a wrapped object. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3736.

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
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.15
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.16
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.17
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.1
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.7
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.0.2"}
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.15
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.16
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.17
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.18
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.19
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"3.0.1"}
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.5
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.6
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.7
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.8
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.9
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.10
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.11
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.12
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.13
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.0.14
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird1.5.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.5
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.6
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.7
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.8
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.9
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.12
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.14
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.16
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.17
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.18
mozilla mozillathunderbird2.0.0.19

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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