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CVE-2010-0162

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2010-02-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly support the application/octet-stream content type as a protection mechanism against execution of web script in certain circumstances involving SVG and the EMBED element, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an embedded SVG document.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Seamonkey

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References