{"id":"CVE-2010-3178","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2010-3178","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:52:39.435Z","title":"Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 do not properly handle certain modal calls made by javascript: URLs in circumstances related to opening a new window and…","description":"Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 do not properly handle certain modal calls made by javascript: URLs in circumstances related to opening a new window and performing cross-domain navigation, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted HTML document.","published":"2010-10-21T19:00:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:22:19.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["mozilla/firefox","mozilla/seamonkey","mozilla/thunderbird"],"epss":{"score":0.01398,"percentile":0.72257,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050077.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050154.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/42867","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100120156","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2124","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:210","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:211","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-69.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0782.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0861.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0896.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44252","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-997-1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-998-1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576616","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12120","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050077.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050154.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/42867","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100120156","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2124","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:210","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:211","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-69.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0782.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0861.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0896.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44252","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-997-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-998-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576616","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12120","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3178","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}