CVE-2012-4205
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 21, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 8, 2012
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779821
- USN-1638-3vendor-advisory
- 51370third-party-advisory
- USN-1638-2vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1586vendor-advisory
- USN-1636-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0175vendor-advisory
- 51434third-party-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1583vendor-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16965vdb-entrysignature
- 51439third-party-advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html
- 51440third-party-advisory
- USN-1638-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2012:1592vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1585vendor-advisory
- 51381third-party-advisory
- 51369third-party-advisory
- firefox-xmlhttprequest-sec-bypass(80175)vdb-entry
- 56621vdb-entry
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