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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-0178 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/39136 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39240 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39243 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39308 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39397 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023776 CVE, MITRE
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-921-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2027 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-20.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0332.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0748 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0764 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0781 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0849 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546909 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57391 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10460 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6975 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-0178
NVD Published Date:
04/05/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
MITRE