National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2751
Original release date:07/30/2010
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The nsDocShell::OnRedirectStateChange function in docshell/base/nsDocShell.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.11 and 3.6.x before 3.6.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.6, allows remote attackers to spoof the SSL security status of a document via vectors involving multiple requests, a redirect, and the history.back and history.forward JavaScript functions.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536466
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-45.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11688
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11688
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)