CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5841

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2012-11-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 implement cross-origin wrappers with a filtering behavior that does not properly restrict write actions, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web site.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (< 10.0.11) • mozilla firefox (< 17.0) • mozilla seamonkey (< 2.14) • mozilla thunderbird (< 17.0) • mozilla thunderbird esr (< 10.0.11) • 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 10 • suse linux enterprise software development kit 11 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.10 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 6.3 • redhat enterprise linux server 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References