CVE-2010-1990

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Published 2010-05-20 · 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

5.0

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.19, and earlier, and SeaMonkey, executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.1`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.2`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.3`
mozilla	firefox	`3.5.1`
mozilla	firefox	`3.5.2`
mozilla	firefox	`3.5.3`
mozilla	firefox	`3.5.4`
mozilla	firefox	`3.5.5`
mozilla	firefox	`3.5.6`
mozilla	firefox	`3.5.7`
mozilla	firefox	`{"endIncluding":"3.0.19"}`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.1`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.2`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.3`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.4`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.5`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.6`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.7`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.8`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.9`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.10`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.11`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.12`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.13`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.14`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.15`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.16`
mozilla	firefox	`3.0.17`
mozilla	seamonkey

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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