CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4205
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 17.0)
• mozilla seamonkey (< 2.14)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 17.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• opensuse opensuse 11.4
• opensuse opensuse 12.1
• opensuse opensuse 12.2
• suse linux enterprise desktop 10
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 10
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html Mailing List, 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 Broken Link
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56621 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779821 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- 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
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html Mailing List, 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 Broken Link
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56621 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779821 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- 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