CVE-2012-1964

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-07-17
Bugzilla:
840222: CVE-2012-1964 Mozilla: Clickjacking of certificate warning page (MFSA 2012-54)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The certificate-warning functionality in browser/components/certerror/content/aboutCertError.xhtml in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 does not properly handle attempted clickjacking of the about:certerror page, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trick users into adding an unintended exception via an IFRAME element.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1964 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 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:1089 2012-07-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2012:1088 2012-07-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:1089 2012-07-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2012:1088 2012-07-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2012:1089 2012-07-17

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Security Researcher Matt McCutchen for reporting this issue.

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