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CVE-2012-4193
Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.1, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.9, Thunderbird before 16.0.1, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.9, and…
Medium6.8EPSS 1.2%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.1, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.9, Thunderbird before 16.0.1, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.1 omit a security check in the defaultValue function during the unwrapping of security wrappers, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the properties of a Location object, or execute arbitrary JavaScript code, via a crafted web site.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 33% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (14)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-89.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 50904 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50984 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16786 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1361 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 50907 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1362 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 55318 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- mozilla-location-security-bypass(79211) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 50964 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720619 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 50906 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-1611-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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)
Record last updated .