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

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1482	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1483	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1482	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1482	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1483	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1482	2012-11-20

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