CVE-2010-0177 is a critical dangling pointer vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions before 3.0.19, 3.5.9, and 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by freeing the window.navigator.plugins array while a reference to an element is still active. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but no authentication, and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit intelligence or active exploitation is reported, its high FAUCET Risk Score indicates significant potential danger.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 3.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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