PT-2012-5252 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+7

Mariusz Mlynski · Published 2012-11-20 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2012-4209

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 versions prior to 10.0.11 Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0 Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 10.0.11 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.14

Description The issue makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving a binary plugin, due to the failure to prevent use of a "top" frame name-attribute value to access the location property.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 or later. For Firefox ESR 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 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-2012-4209

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 · 3148

• 🔥 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://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06203 · Security Note