Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, does not prevent applets from interpreting mouse clicks as drag-and-drop actions, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with Chrome privileges by loading a chrome: URL and then loading a javascript: URL.
Published: 2010-04-05
Score: 7.6 High
EPSS: 3.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2027-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-0209 Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, does not prevent applets from interpreting mouse clicks as drag-and-drop actions, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with Chrome privileges by loading a chrome: URL and then loading a javascript: URL.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-920-1 Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-921-1 Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
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Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey
Redhat Enterprise Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:37:54.018Z

Reserved: 2010-01-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-0178

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Status : Modified

Published: 2010-04-05T17:30:00.547

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-0178

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2010-03-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-0178 - Bugzilla

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