CVE-2010-2768: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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.