Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.19, and earlier, and SeaMonkey, executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.
Published: 2010-05-20
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-2009 Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.19, and earlier, and SeaMonkey, executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.
History

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Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T02:17:14.430Z

Reserved: 2010-05-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-1990

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-05-20T17:30:01.613

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

Link: CVE-2010-1990

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-1990 - Bugzilla

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