CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-0458

Published: Mar 14, 2012 | Modified: Jan 18, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.8 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict setting the home page through the dragging of a URL to the home button, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a javascript: URL that is later interpreted in the about:sessionrestore context.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 3.6.27 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat firefox-0:10.0.3-1.el5_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat xulrunner-0:10.0.3-1.el5_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat thunderbird-0:10.0.3-1.el5_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat firefox-0:10.0.3-1.el6_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat xulrunner-0:10.0.3-1.el6_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat thunderbird-0:10.0.3-1.el6_2 *
Firefox Ubuntu hardy *
Firefox Ubuntu lucid *
Firefox Ubuntu maverick *
Firefox Ubuntu natty *
Firefox Ubuntu oneiric *
Seamonkey Ubuntu hardy *
Seamonkey Ubuntu lucid *
Seamonkey Ubuntu maverick *
Seamonkey Ubuntu natty *
Seamonkey Ubuntu oneiric *
Thunderbird Ubuntu hardy *
Thunderbird Ubuntu lucid *
Thunderbird Ubuntu maverick *
Thunderbird Ubuntu natty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu oneiric *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu hardy *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu lucid *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu maverick *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu natty *
Xulrunner-2.0 Ubuntu natty *

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