CVE-2010-2760: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTreeSelection function in 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 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a XUL tree selection, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability." NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-2753.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox: version 3.6 only; version 3.6.2 only; version 3.6.3 only; version 3.6.4 only; version 3.6.6 only; version 3.6.7 only; …
  • Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.0.6; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 3.0.6; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2010-09-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.