CVE-2010-1990 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.19 and earlier, as well as SeaMonkey. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger excessive launches of a user's default mail application by embedding numerous IFRAME elements with "mailto:" URLs in their SRC attributes within an HTML document. This issue has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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