CVE-2012-4196

CVE Details

Release Date:	2012-10-26
Impact:	Critical	What is this?

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.2, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, Thunderbird before 16.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.2 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the Location object via a prototype property-injection attack that defeats certain protection mechanisms for this object.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1407	2012-10-26
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1413	2012-10-29
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1407	2012-10-26
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1407	2012-10-26
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1413	2012-10-29
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1407	2012-10-26