Back
CVE-2012-4203
The New Tab page in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 uses a privileged context for execution of JavaScript code by bookmarklets, which allows…
Medium6.8EPSS 3.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The New Tab page in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 uses a privileged context for execution of JavaScript code by bookmarklets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to run arbitrary programs by leveraging a javascript: URL in a bookmark.
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)
- 3.3% · top 12% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
Loading the EPSS history…
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)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765628 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1638-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-1638-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1586 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0175 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 51434 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1583 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 51439 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 56623 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-1638-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1592 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16503 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 51369 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-95.html (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)
- 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 .