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CVE-2012-0479

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Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 allow remote attackers to spoof the address bar via an https URL for invalid (1) RSS or (2) Atom XML content.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17011

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75156

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-0511

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714631

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53224

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-33.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:081

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:066

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2464

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2457

http://secunia.com/advisories/49055

http://secunia.com/advisories/49047

http://secunia.com/advisories/48972

http://secunia.com/advisories/48922

http://secunia.com/advisories/48920

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-04-25

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02231

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