National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1215
Original release date:07/30/2010
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.7 and Thunderbird 3.1.x before 3.1.1 do not properly implement access to a content object through a SafeJSObjectWrapper (aka SJOW) wrapper, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by leveraging "access to an object from the chrome scope."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567069
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-38.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11527
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11527
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5