PT-2012-5246 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Kakzz.Ng · Published 2012-11-20 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2012-4203

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 17.0

Description The issue concerns the New Tab page in Mozilla Firefox, where JavaScript code executed by bookmarklets uses a privileged context. This allows remote attackers to run arbitrary programs if they can trick a user into using a javascript: URL in a bookmark.

Recommendations For versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4203

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Affected Products

Firefox

Suse

References · 2074

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4203 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-95 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-95.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4203 · Security Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0354 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3302 · Note