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CVE-2010-2117

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2117 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.19, 3.5.x, and 3.6.x. Remote attackers can exploit this by crafting JavaScript code that creates an infinite loop of IFRAME elements pointing to invalid news:// or nntp:// URIs, leading to resource exhaustion. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 55th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2117

Firefox: DoS (resource consumption) via JavaScript source with loop of invalid (1) news:// or (2) nntp:// URIs

May 27, 2010

References

oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11190
websecurity.com.ua / 4238
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/511509/100/0/threaded