Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey…

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly restrict JSAPI access to the GetProperty function, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (20)

• 50904 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 50984 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 50935 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783260 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 50856 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-2565 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 50892 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 55930 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• DSA-2572 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-81.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 86098 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 50936 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 51181 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 55318 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• MDVSA-2012:163 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16646 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• USN-1611-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-2569 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2012-3991](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2012-3991.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2012-3991)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 20:21 UTC.