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CVE-2012-4207

The HZ-GB-2312 character-set implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0,…

Medium4.3EPSS 2.8%
Published
Updated
Reserved
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mitre

Description

The HZ-GB-2312 character-set implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not properly handle a ~ (tilde) character in proximity to a chunk delimiter, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted document.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-4207, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.8% · top 14% 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 4.3.

Weakness

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