CVE-2010-0162
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly support the application/octet-stream content type as a protection mechanism against execution of web script in certain circumstances involving SVG and the EMBED element, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an embedded SVG document.
- EPSS
- 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mozilla:firefox
- mozilla:seamonkey
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37242