CVE-2012-4205

MEDIUM

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.

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/msg00092.html

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/51369

http://secunia.com/advisories/51370

http://secunia.com/advisories/51381

http://secunia.com/advisories/51434

http://secunia.com/advisories/51439

http://secunia.com/advisories/51440

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56621

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1

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=779821

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80175

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16965

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2012-11-21

Updated: 2017-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

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