CVE-2012-5841
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 implement cross-origin wrappers with a filtering behavior that does not properly restrict write actions, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web site.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | 10.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 11.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.10 | affected | |
| suse | 11.4 | affected | |
| suse | 12.1 | affected | |
| suse | 12.2 | affected | |
| suse | 10 | affected | |
| suse | 11 | affected | |
| rhel | 5.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.3 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | {"endExcluding":"10.0.11"} | 10.0.11 |
| mozilla | seamonkey | {"endExcluding":"2.14"} | 2.14 |
| mozilla | thunderbird | {"endExcluding":"17.0"} | 17.0 |
| mozilla | thunderbird_esr | {"endExcluding":"10.0.11"} | 10.0.11 |
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://osvdb.org/87588
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51359
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51360
- 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.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-100.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56631
- 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=805807
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80178
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.