PT-2012-2974 · Unity · Unity-Firefox-Extension

Chris Coulson + 2 · Published 2012-12-26 · Updated 2013-01-11 · CVE-2012-0958

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions unity-firefox-extension version 2.4.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via a crafted webpage, due to the exposure of the toDataURL function in an API call in the content/unity-api.js file.

Recommendations For version 2.4.1, consider disabling the toDataURL function in the content/unity-api.js file as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to the unity-firefox-extension to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-0958

Affected Products

Unity-Firefox-Extension

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0958 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1665-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/88438 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/56930 · Note
• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~webapps/unity-firefox-extension/trunk/revision/331 · Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/unity-firefox-extension/%2Bbug/1069817 · Note