CVE-2010-3178: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 do not properly handle certain modal calls made by javascript: URLs in circumstances related to opening a new window and performing cross-domain navigation, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted HTML document.

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 2.0.8; 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 3.0.8; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2010-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.