CVE-2012-4209

CVE Details

Release Date:2012-11-20

Description


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 do not prevent use of a top frame name-attribute value to access the location property, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving a binary plugin.

See more information about CVE-2012-4209 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: 4.3 Base Metrics: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector: Network Attack Complexity: Medium
Authentication: None required Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact: Partial Availability Impact: None

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)ELSA-2012-14822012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)ELSA-2012-14832012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)ELSA-2012-14822012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)ELSA-2012-14822012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)ELSA-2012-14832012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)ELSA-2012-14822012-11-20



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