PT-2010-3611 · Mozilla · Firefox+1

Published 2010-05-20 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2010-1990

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x through 3.0.19 and earlier SeaMonkey (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by launching excessive mail applications via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements, specifically when an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x through 3.0.19 and earlier, consider disabling the handling of mailto: URLs in IFRAME elements to prevent excessive application launches. For SeaMonkey, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1990

Affected Products

Firefox

Seamonkey

References · 4

• 🔥 http://websecurity.com.ua/4206 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1990 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12386 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded · Note