PT-2012-5250 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+7

Masato Kinugawa · Published 2012-11-20 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2012-4207

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 17.0 Firefox ESR 10.x versions prior to 10.0.11 Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0 Thunderbird ESR 10.x versions prior to 10.0.11 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.14

Description The issue arises from the improper handling of a ~ (tilde) character in proximity to a chunk delimiter in the HZ-GB-2312 character-set implementation. This allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted document.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 or later. For Firefox ESR 10.x versions prior to 10.0.11, update to version 10.0.11 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 or later. For Thunderbird ESR 10.x versions prior to 10.0.11, update to version 10.0.11 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.14, update to version 2.14 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_1482

CESA-2012_1483

CVE-2012-4207

DSA-2583-1

DSA-2584-1

DSA-2588-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0175-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2012:1482

RHSA-2012:1483

RHSA-2012_1482

RHSA-2012_1483

Affected Products

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

Thunderbird Esr

References · 3152

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proto_crmfrequest.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechange.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_tostring_console_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_attribchildremoved.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_webidl_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_nssvgvalue.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_xmlserializer.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_interleaved_write.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_svg_plugin.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_reduceright.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/vlad902/annotated-fbi-tbb-exploit · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/argp/cve-2011-3026-firefox · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mk219533/CVE-2010-1205 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/johnwchadwick/cve-2009-3555-test-server · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801681 · Exploit