CVE-2012-4205

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 12 years ago

2012-11-21 12:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:35:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 0.1

0.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.2

0.2

Mozilla Firefox 0.3

0.3

Mozilla Firefox 0.4

0.4

Mozilla Firefox 0.5

0.5

Mozilla Firefox 0.6

0.6

Mozilla Firefox 0.6.1

0.6.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.7

0.7

Mozilla Firefox 0.7.1

0.7.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.8

0.8

Mozilla Firefox 0.9

0.9

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 rc

0.9

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1

0.9.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2

0.9.2

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3

0.9.3

Mozilla Firefox 0.10

0.10

Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1

0.10.1

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

2.0

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1

2.0.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2

2.0.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3

2.0.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

2.0.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5

2.0.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6

2.0.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7

2.0.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8

2.0.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9

2.0.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10

2.0.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

2.0.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12

2.0.0.12

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13

2.0.0.13

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14

2.0.0.14

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15

2.0.0.15

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16

2.0.0.16

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.17

2.0.0.17

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.18

2.0.0.18

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.19

2.0.0.19

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.20

2.0.0.20

Mozilla Firefox 3.0

3.0

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1

3.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2

3.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3

3.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4

3.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5

3.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6

3.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7

3.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8

3.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9

3.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10

3.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11

3.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12

3.0.12

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13

3.0.13

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14

3.0.14

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.15

3.0.15

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.16

3.0.16

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.17

3.0.17

Mozilla Firefox 3.5

3.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1

3.5.1

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2

3.5.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3

3.5.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4

3.5.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5

3.5.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6

3.5.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7

3.5.7

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8

3.5.8

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.9

3.5.9

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.10

3.5.10

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.11

3.5.11

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.12

3.5.12

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.13

3.5.13

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.14

3.5.14

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.15

3.5.15

Mozilla Firefox 3.6

3.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2

3.6.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3

3.6.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4

3.6.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6

3.6.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.7

3.6.7

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8

3.6.8

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.9

3.6.9

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.10

3.6.10

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.11

3.6.11

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12

3.6.12

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13

3.6.13

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.14

3.6.14

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.15

3.6.15

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.16

3.6.16

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.17

3.6.17

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.18

3.6.18

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.19

3.6.19

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.20

3.6.20

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.21

3.6.21

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.22

3.6.22

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.23

3.6.23

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.24

3.6.24

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.25

3.6.25

Mozilla Firefox 4.0

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta1

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta10

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta11

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta12

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta2

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta3

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta4

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta5

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta6

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta7

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta8

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta9

4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1

4.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 5.0

5.0

Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1

5.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 6.0

6.0

Mozilla Firefox 6.0.1

6.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2

6.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 7.0

7.0

Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1

7.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 8.0

8.0

Mozilla Firefox 8.0.1

8.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 9.0

9.0

Mozilla Firefox 9.0.1

9.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 10.0

10.0

Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1

10.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 10.0.2

10.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 11.0

11.0

Mozilla Firefox 12.0

12.0

Mozilla Firefox 12.0 beta6

12.0

Mozilla Firefox 13.0

13.0

Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1

13.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 14.0

14.0

Mozilla Firefox 14.0.1

14.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 15.0

15.0

Mozilla Firefox 15.0.1

15.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 16.0

16.0

Mozilla Firefox 16.0.1

16.0.1

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1

0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2

0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3

0.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4

0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5

0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6

0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7

0.7

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1

0.7.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2

0.7.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3

0.7.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8

0.8

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9

0.9

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0

1.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2

1.0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5

1.0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6

1.0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7

1.0.7

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8

1.0.8

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2

1.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.2

1.5.0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4

1.5.0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.5

1.5.0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.7

1.5.0.7

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.8

1.5.0.8

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9

1.5.0.9

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.10

1.5.0.10

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.12

1.5.0.12

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.13

1.5.0.13

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.14

1.5.0.14

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0

2.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.0

2.0.0.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4

2.0.0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.5

2.0.0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6

2.0.0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.9

2.0.0.9

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12

2.0.0.12

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14

2.0.0.14

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16

2.0.0.16

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17

2.0.0.17

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18

2.0.0.18

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19

2.0.0.19

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.21

2.0.0.21

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.22

2.0.0.22

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23

2.0.0.23

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0

3.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.1

3.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.2

3.0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.3

3.0.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.4

3.0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.5

3.0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.6

3.0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.7

3.0.7

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.8

3.0.8

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.9

3.0.9

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.10

3.0.10

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.11

3.0.11

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1

3.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1

3.1.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.2

3.1.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.3

3.1.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.4

3.1.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.5

3.1.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.6

3.1.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7

3.1.7

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.8

3.1.8

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.9

3.1.9

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.10

3.1.10

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.11

3.1.11

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.12

3.1.12

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.13

3.1.13

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.14

3.1.14

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.15

3.1.15

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.16

3.1.16

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.17

3.1.17

Mozilla Thunderbird 5.0

5.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0

6.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0.1

6.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0.2

6.0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0

7.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0.1

7.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 8.0

8.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0

9.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0.1

9.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0

10.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0.1

10.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0.2

10.0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 11.0

11.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 11.0.1

11.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 12.0

12.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 12.0.1

12.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 13.0

13.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 13.0.1

13.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 14.0

14.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 15.0

15.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 15.0.1

15.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 1

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 2

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 3

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 2

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 RC1

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 RC2

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.1

2.0.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.2

2.0.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.3

2.0.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.4

2.0.4

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.5

2.0.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.6

2.0.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.7

2.0.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.8

2.0.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.9

2.0.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.10

2.0.10

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.11

2.0.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.12

2.0.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.13

2.0.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.14

2.0.14

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 alpha1

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 alpha2

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 alpha3

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 1

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 2

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 3

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 Release Candidate 1

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 Release Candidate 2

2.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.2

2.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.2 Beta 1

2.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.2 Beta 2

2.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.2 Beta 3

2.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.3

2.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.3 Beta1

2.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.3 Beta 2

2.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.3 Beta 3

2.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.3.1

2.3.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.3.2

2.3.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.3.3

2.3.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.4

2.4

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.4 Beta 1

2.4

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.4 Beta 2

2.4

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.4 Beta 3

2.4

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.4.1

2.4.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.5

2.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.5 Beta 1

2.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.5 Beta 2

2.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.5 Beta 3

2.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.5 Beta 4

2.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.6

2.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.6 Beta 1

2.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.6 Beta 2

2.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.6 Beta 3

2.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.6 Beta 4

2.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.6.1

2.6.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7

2.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7 Beta 1

2.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7 Beta 2

2.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7 Beta 3

2.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7 Beta 4

2.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7 Beta 5

2.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7.1

2.7.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7.2

2.7.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.8

2.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.8 Beta 1

2.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.8 Beta 2

2.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.8 Beta 3

2.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.8 Beta 4

2.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.8 Beta 5

2.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.8 Beta 6

2.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.9

2.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.9 Beta 1

2.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.9 Beta 2

2.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.9 Beta 3

2.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.9 beta4

2.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.9.1

2.9.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.10

2.10

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.10 beta1

2.10

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.10 beta2

2.10

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.10 beta3

2.10

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.10.1

2.10.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.11

2.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.11 beta1

2.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.11 beta2

2.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.11 beta3

2.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.11 beta4

2.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.11 beta5

2.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.11 beta6

2.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.12

2.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.12 beta1

2.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.12 beta2

2.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.12 beta3

2.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.12 beta4

2.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.12 beta5

2.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.12 beta6

2.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.12.1

2.12.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.13

2.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.13 beta1

2.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.13 beta2

2.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.13 beta3

2.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.13 beta4

2.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.13 beta5

2.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.13 beta6

2.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.13.1

2.13.1

Mozilla Seamonkey 2.13.2

2.13.2

Mozilla Seamonkey 2.14 beta1

2.14

Mozilla Seamonkey 2.14 beta2

2.14

Mozilla Seamonkey 2.14 beta3

2.14

Mozilla Seamonkey 2.14 beta4

2.14

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