CVE-2010-2768

CVE Details

Release Date:	2010-09-09
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 do not properly restrict use of the type attribute of an OBJECT element to set a document's charset, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via UTF-7 encoding.

See more information about CVE-2010-2768 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2010-0680	2010-09-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2010-0681	2010-09-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nspr)	ELSA-2010-0681	2010-09-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nss)	ELSA-2010-0681	2010-09-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2010-0680	2010-09-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2010-0682	2010-09-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2010-0681	2010-09-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (nspr)	ELSA-2010-0681	2010-09-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2010-0681	2010-09-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2010-0681	2010-09-08