CVE-2012-1944

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-06-05
Bugzilla:
827830: CVE-2012-1944 Mozilla: Content Security Policy inline-script bypass (MFSA 2012-36)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 does not block inline event handlers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted HTML document.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1944 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 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:0715 2012-06-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:0715 2012-06-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:0715 2012-06-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2012:0710 2012-06-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2012:0710 2012-06-05

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges security researcher Adam Barth as the original reporter.

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