CVE-2010-2768

N/A Unknown
Published: September 09, 2010 Modified: April 29, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047282.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00002.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100110210
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100112690
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2106
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:173
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-61.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43101
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2323
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579744
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11735
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047282.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00002.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100110210
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100112690
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2106
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:173
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-61.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43101
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2323
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579744
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11735
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

28 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
2.1%
79th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

Affected Vendors

mozilla

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