CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-3993

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Oct 10, 2012 | Modified: Oct 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
6.8 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 does not properly interact with failures of InstallTrigger methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site, related to an XrayWrapper pollution issue.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.1 (including) 10.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.2 (including) 10.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.3 (including) 10.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.4 (including) 10.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.5 (including) 10.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.6 (including) 10.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.7 (including) 10.0.7 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat firefox-0:10.0.8-1.el5_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat xulrunner-0:10.0.8-1.el5_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat thunderbird-0:10.0.8-1.el5_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat firefox-0:10.0.8-1.el6_3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat xulrunner-0:10.0.8-1.el6_3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat thunderbird-0:10.0.8-1.el6_3 *
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu hardy *
Firefox Ubuntu lucid *
Firefox Ubuntu natty *
Firefox Ubuntu oneiric *
Firefox Ubuntu precise *
Firefox Ubuntu quantal *
Firefox Ubuntu raring *
Firefox Ubuntu saucy *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Seamonkey Ubuntu hardy *
Seamonkey Ubuntu lucid *
Seamonkey Ubuntu natty *
Seamonkey Ubuntu oneiric *
Seamonkey Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu devel *
Thunderbird Ubuntu hardy *
Thunderbird Ubuntu lucid *
Thunderbird Ubuntu natty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu oneiric *
Thunderbird Ubuntu precise *
Thunderbird Ubuntu quantal *
Thunderbird Ubuntu raring *
Thunderbird Ubuntu saucy *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu hardy *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu lucid *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu natty *

Potential Mitigations

References