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CVE-2012-4203

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Description

The New Tab page in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 uses a privileged context for execution of JavaScript code by bookmarklets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to run arbitrary programs by leveraging a javascript: URL in a bookmark.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/51369

http://secunia.com/advisories/51434

http://secunia.com/advisories/51439

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-95.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56623

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765628

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16503

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2012-11-21

Updated: 2017-09-19

Type: CWE-264

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

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