CVE-2010-0162
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 2.9% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0193)
- Published
- February 22, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0193 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
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- mozilla / seamonkey
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- mozilla / seamonkey
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- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
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References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37242(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38847
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1999
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:042
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-05.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-895-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-896-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0405(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455472
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56363
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10697
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8631
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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