CVE-2012-4205

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.

CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

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

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779821	Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html	Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1	Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3	Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2	Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1	Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56621	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/51434	Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51381	Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51369	Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51440	Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51439	Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/51370	Broken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80175	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16965	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::esm:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:::::::*

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:10:sp4:::-:::*
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp2::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:10:sp4:::-:::*
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2::::-::*
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2::::vmware::*
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:11:sp2::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:11:sp3::::::

Information

Published : 2012-11-21 04:55

Updated : 2020-08-21 11:45

NVD link : CVE-2012-4205

Mitre link : CVE-2012-4205

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Products Affected

suse

linux_enterprise_desktop
linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
linux_enterprise_server

mozilla

thunderbird
firefox
seamonkey

canonical

ubuntu_linux

opensuse

opensuse

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