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 properly restrict use of the type attribute of an OBJECT element to set a document's charset, which allows remote…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.11% probability · 82th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/seamonkey · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047282.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100110210
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100112690
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2106
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:173
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-61.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43101
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2323
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579744
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11735
- http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047282.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100110210
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100112690
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2106
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:173
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-61.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43101
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2323
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579744
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11735
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.