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CVE-2010-0163

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0163 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution, affecting Mozilla Thunderbird before version 2.0.0.24 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.19. The flaw stems from incorrect parsing of email attachments, specifically related to casts and line termination during message indexing. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with medium attack complexity, resulting in an application crash or potentially arbitrary code execution. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.0.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0319 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.55.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-25.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-58.el4_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:2.0.0.24-2.el5_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0163Important

seamonkey/thunderbird: crash when indexing certain messages with attachments

Mar 16, 2010

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/38977
secunia.com / advisories/39001
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/56993
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10805
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14259
mozilla.org / security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-07.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0499.html
securityfocus.com / bid/38831
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-915-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0648
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1556