CVE-2010-0170 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 does not offer plugins the expected window.location protection mechanism, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors that are specific to each affected plugin.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-10.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38918
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38919
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0692
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541530
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8602

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2010-03-25T20:31:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:37:54.086Z

Reserved: 2010-01-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-0170

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-03-25T21:00:00.563

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-0170

Redhat

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