CVE-2012-4209
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51359Advisory