CVE-2012-3992

CVE Details

Release Date:	2012-10-09
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

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 manage history data, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive POST content via vectors involving a location.hash write operation and history navigation that triggers the loading of a URL into the history object.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1350	2012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1351	2012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1350	2012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1350	2012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1351	2012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1350	2012-10-10