5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.007 Low
EPSS
Percentile
80.0%
Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.902185");
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:"2010-07-01 15:58:11 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jul 2010)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-1990");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Mozilla Products 'IFRAME' DoS Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/511327/100/0/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", "gb_seamonkey_detect_win.nasl",
"gb_thunderbird_detect_portable_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Mozilla/Firefox_or_Seamonkey_or_Thunderbird/Installed");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to cause a
denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Seamonkey version prior to 2.0.4,
Firefox version 3.0.x to 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, 3.6.x before 3.6.2");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to improper handling of an 'IFRAME' element
with a mailto: URL in its 'SRC' attribute, which allows remote attackers to
exhaust resources via an HTML document with many 'IFRAME' elements.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Firefox version 3.5.9, 3.6.2
Upgrade to Seamonkey version 2.0.4");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
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:"3.5.8") ||
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:"3.6.1"))
{
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
exit(0);
}
}
smVer = get_kb_item("Seamonkey/Win/Ver");
if(smVer)
{
if(version_is_less(version:smVer, test_version:"2.0.4")){
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}
}