CVE-2010-1121
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.3 does not properly manage the scopes of DOM nodes that are moved from one document to another, which…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 5.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.3 does not properly manage the scopes of DOM nodes that are moved from one document to another, which allows remote attackers to conduct use-after-free attacks and execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving improper interaction with garbage collection, as demonstrated by Nils during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2010.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.7% · top 6.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
24
- 40481 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-930-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-10361 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10924 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1640 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0501 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1557 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1592 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- USN-930-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 1023817 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555109 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0500 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2010:030 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6844 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 40323 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/11005277222 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 40401 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-10344 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-25.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 40326 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100091069 (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-2010-1152 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-1121)Record last updated .