CVE-2010-0162

Mozilla bypass of same-origin policy due to improper SVG document processing (MFSA 2010-05)

Published Feb 21, 2010 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 2.9% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1999-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-0193 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-895-1 Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-896-1 Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 12:37 AM
Reserved
Jan 6, 2010, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 22, 2010, 1:00 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:15 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Feb 17, 2010, 12:00 AM