CVE-2012-1950

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-07-17
Bugzilla:
840203: CVE-2012-1950 Mozilla: Incorrect URL displayed in addressbar through drag and drop (MFSA 2012-43)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The drag-and-drop implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar by canceling a page load.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1950 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:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2012:1088 2012-07-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2012:1088 2012-07-17

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges security researcher Mario Gomes and research firm Code Audit Labs as the original reporters of this issue.

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