CVE-2012-0455

medium
Published 2012-03-14 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

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 drag-and-drop operations on javascript: URLs, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web page, related to a "DragAndDropJacking" issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"3.6.27"}
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox7.0
mozilla mozillafirefox7.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox8.0
mozilla mozillafirefox8.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox9.0
mozilla mozillafirefox9.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0
mozilla mozillafirefox_esr10.1
mozilla mozillafirefox_esr10.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"3.1.19"}
mozilla mozillathunderbird5.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird6.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird6.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird6.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird8.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird9.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird9.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr10.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.7"}

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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