CVE-2012-4205
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381