CVE-2010-0170 (GCVE-0-2010-0170)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-03-25 20:31 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:37
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 does not offer plugins the expected window.location protection mechanism, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors that are specific to each affected plugin.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2010-03-23 00:00
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