Improper Input Validation Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.1][3.1,3.6.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.18% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378094
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jul 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jul 2010

CVE-2010-1210  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.6.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation intl/uconv/util/nsUnicodeDecodeHelper.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.7 and Thunderbird before 3.1.1 inserts a U+FFFD sequence into text in certain circumstances involving undefined positions, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted 8-bit text.

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