CVE-2012-4205

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Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.

6.8 /10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779821 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56621 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 Broken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80175 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16965 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:10:sp4:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:10:sp4:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2:*:*:*:-:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2:*:*:*:vmware:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:11:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2012-11-21 12:55

Updated : 2020-08-21 18:45

NVD link : CVE-2012-4205

Mitre link : CVE-2012-4205

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Products Affected

canonical

  • ubuntu_linux

mozilla

  • seamonkey
  • firefox
  • thunderbird

opensuse

  • opensuse

suse

  • linux_enterprise_server
  • linux_enterprise_desktop
  • linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
CWE
CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)