CVE-2012-0474

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-04-24
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
815024: CVE-2012-0474 Mozilla: Page load short-circuit can lead to XSS (MFSA 2012-27)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the docshell implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to short-circuited page loads, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

Find out more about CVE-2012-0474 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:0516 2012-04-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2012:0515 2012-04-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2012:0515 2012-04-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:0516 2012-04-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:0516 2012-04-24

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jordi Chancel and Eddy Bordi, and Chris McGowen as the original reporters.

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