VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3978

medium
Published 2012-08-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

The nsLocation::CheckURL function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 does not properly follow the security model of the location object, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended content-loading restrictions or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving chrome code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-70.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox10.0
mozillafirefox10.0.1
mozillafirefox10.0.2
mozillafirefox10.0.3
mozillafirefox10.0.4
mozillafirefox10.0.5
mozillafirefox10.0.6
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.1
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.2
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.3
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.4
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.5
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.6
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"14.0"}
mozillafirefox1.0
mozillafirefox1.0.1
mozillafirefox1.0.2
mozillafirefox1.0.3
mozillafirefox1.0.4
mozillafirefox1.0.5
mozillafirefox1.0.6
mozillafirefox1.0.7
mozillafirefox1.0.8
mozillafirefox1.4.1
mozillafirefox1.5
mozillafirefox1.5.0.1
mozillafirefox1.5.0.2
mozillafirefox1.5.0.3
mozillafirefox1.5.0.4
mozillafirefox1.5.0.5
mozillafirefox1.5.0.6
mozillafirefox1.5.0.7
mozillafirefox1.5.0.8
mozillafirefox1.5.0.9
mozillafirefox1.5.0.10
mozillafirefox1.5.0.11
mozillafirefox1.5.0.12
mozillafirefox1.5.1
mozillafirefox1.5.2
mozillafirefox1.5.3
mozillafirefox1.5.4
mozillafirefox1.5.5
mozillafirefox1.5.6
mozillafirefox1.5.7
mozillafirefox1.5.8
mozillafirefox1.8
mozillafirefox2.0
mozillafirefox2.0.0.1
mozillafirefox2.0.0.2
mozillafirefox2.0.0.3
mozillafirefox2.0.0.4
mozillafirefox2.0.0.5
mozillafirefox2.0.0.6
mozillafirefox2.0.0.7
mozillafirefox2.0.0.8
mozillafirefox2.0.0.9
mozillafirefox2.0.0.10
mozillafirefox2.0.0.11
mozillafirefox2.0.0.12
mozillafirefox2.0.0.13
mozillafirefox2.0.0.14
mozillafirefox2.0.0.15
mozillafirefox2.0.0.16
mozillafirefox2.0.0.17
mozillafirefox2.0.0.18
mozillafirefox2.0.0.19
mozillafirefox2.0.0.20
mozillafirefox3.0
mozillafirefox3.0.1
mozillafirefox3.0.2
mozillafirefox3.0.3
mozillafirefox3.0.4
mozillafirefox3.0.5
mozillafirefox3.0.6
mozillafirefox3.0.7
mozillafirefox3.0.8
mozillafirefox3.0.9
mozillafirefox3.0.10
mozillafirefox3.0.11
mozillafirefox3.0.12
mozillafirefox3.0.13
mozillafirefox3.0.14
mozillafirefox3.0.15
mozillafirefox3.0.16
mozillafirefox3.0.17
mozillafirefox3.5
mozillafirefox3.5.1
mozillafirefox3.5.2
mozillafirefox3.5.3
mozillafirefox3.5.4
mozillafirefox3.5.5
mozillafirefox3.5.6
mozillafirefox3.5.7
mozillafirefox3.5.8
mozillafirefox3.5.9
mozillafirefox3.5.10
mozillafirefox3.5.11
mozillafirefox3.5.12
mozillafirefox3.5.13
mozillafirefox3.5.14
mozillafirefox3.5.15
mozillafirefox3.6
mozillafirefox3.6.2
mozillafirefox3.6.3
mozillafirefox3.6.4
mozillafirefox3.6.6
mozillafirefox3.6.7
mozillafirefox3.6.8
mozillafirefox3.6.9
mozillafirefox3.6.10
mozillafirefox3.6.11
mozillafirefox3.6.12
mozillafirefox3.6.13
mozillafirefox3.6.14
mozillafirefox3.6.15
mozillafirefox3.6.16
mozillafirefox3.6.17
mozillafirefox3.6.18
mozillafirefox3.6.19
mozillafirefox3.6.20
mozillafirefox3.6.21
mozillafirefox3.6.22
mozillafirefox3.6.23
mozillafirefox3.6.24
mozillafirefox3.6.25
mozillafirefox4.0
mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozillafirefox5.0
mozillafirefox5.0.1
mozillafirefox6.0
mozillafirefox6.0.1
mozillafirefox6.0.2
mozillafirefox7.0
mozillafirefox7.0.1
mozillafirefox8.0
mozillafirefox8.0.1
mozillafirefox9.0
mozillafirefox9.0.1
mozillafirefox11.0
mozillafirefox12.0
mozillafirefox13.0
mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"14.0"}
mozillathunderbird1.0
mozillathunderbird1.0.1
mozillathunderbird1.0.2
mozillathunderbird1.0.3
mozillathunderbird1.0.4
mozillathunderbird1.0.5
mozillathunderbird1.0.6
mozillathunderbird1.0.7
mozillathunderbird1.0.8
mozillathunderbird1.5
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.1
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.2
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.3
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.4
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.5
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.6
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.7
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.8
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.9
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.10
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.11
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.12
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.13
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.14
mozillathunderbird1.5.1
mozillathunderbird1.5.2
mozillathunderbird1.7.1
mozillathunderbird1.7.3
mozillathunderbird2.0
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.0
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.1
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.2
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.3
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.4
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.5
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.6
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.7
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.8
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.9
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.11
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.12
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.13
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.14
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.15
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.16
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.17
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.18
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.19
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.20
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.21
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.22
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.23
mozillathunderbird3.0
mozillathunderbird3.0.1
mozillathunderbird3.0.2
mozillathunderbird3.0.3
mozillathunderbird3.0.4

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.