CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
78.3%
Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801347");
script_version("2024-02-22T05:06:55+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-22 05:06:55 +0000 (Thu, 22 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-06-04 09:43:24 +0200 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2117");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Mozilla Firefox 'IFRAME' DoS Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://websecurity.com.ua/4238/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/511509/100/0/threaded");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_portable_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Win/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to cause a
denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Firefox version 3.0.x prior to 3.0.19, 3.5.x prior to 3.5.9,
3.6.x prior to 3.6.3");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to improper handling of 'JavaScript' code which
contains an infinite loop, that creates IFRAME elements for invalid news://
or nntp:// URIs.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year
since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore.
General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective
features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
ffVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(ffVer)
{
if(version_in_range(version:ffVer, test_version:"3.5", test_version2:"3.5.9") ||
version_in_range(version:ffVer, test_version:"3.0", test_version2:"3.0.19") ||
version_in_range(version:ffVer, test_version:"3.6", test_version2:"3.6.3")) {
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}
}