CVE-2012-1959

CVE Details

Release Date:

2012-07-18

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 do not consider the presence of same-compartment security wrappers (SCSW) during the cross-compartment wrapping of objects, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended XBL access restrictions via crafted content.

See more information about CVE-2012-1959 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1088	2012-07-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1088	2012-07-17
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1088	2012-07-17
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1089	2012-07-17
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1088	2012-07-17

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