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CVE-2012-3986

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Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly restrict calls to DOMWindowUtils (aka nsDOMWindowUtils) methods, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via crafted JavaScript code.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/50856

http://secunia.com/advisories/50892

http://secunia.com/advisories/50904

http://secunia.com/advisories/50935

http://secunia.com/advisories/50936

http://secunia.com/advisories/50984

http://secunia.com/advisories/51181

http://secunia.com/advisories/55318

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2565

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2569

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2572

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-77.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55922

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775868

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16834

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2012-10-10

Updated: 2020-08-10

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

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