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CVE-2010-0175
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTreeSelection implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19 and 3.5.x before 3.5.9, Thunderbird…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 7.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTreeSelection implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19 and 3.5.x before 3.5.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors that trigger a call to the handler for the select event for XUL tree items.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.0% · top 5.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
34
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375928 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 39397 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0333 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 39308 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 39136 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0781 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-5561 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-921-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-17.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1023782 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0764 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-050 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7546 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1023780 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- firefox-nstreeselection-code-execution(57390) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0765 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MDVSA-2010:070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 20100402 ZDI-10-050: Mozilla Firefox nsTreeSelection EventListener Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-5526 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9834 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 38566 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 39117 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 39243 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0748 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0849 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-5539 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0790 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 39242 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-2027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0332 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 39240 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 39204 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540100 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-0206 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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