CVE-2012-0458

critical

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict setting the home page through the dragging of a URL to the home button, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a javascript: URL that is later interpreted in the about:sessionrestore context.

References

Advisories
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15122

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1401-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-5

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-4

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-3

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-2

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2433

http://secunia.com/advisories/48920

http://secunia.com/advisories/48823

http://secunia.com/advisories/48629

http://secunia.com/advisories/48624

http://secunia.com/advisories/48561

http://secunia.com/advisories/48553

http://secunia.com/advisories/48513

http://secunia.com/advisories/48496

http://secunia.com/advisories/48495

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00042.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723808

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719994

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52460

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-16.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:032

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:031

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2458

http://secunia.com/advisories/48414

http://secunia.com/advisories/48402

http://secunia.com/advisories/48359

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0388.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0387.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-03-14

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.032