CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-3993

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Oct 10, 2012 | Modified: Aug 13, 2020
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
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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_esr Mozilla 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Firefox_esr Mozilla 10.0.1 (including) 10.0.1 (including)
Firefox_esr Mozilla 10.0.2 (including) 10.0.2 (including)
Firefox_esr Mozilla 10.0.3 (including) 10.0.3 (including)
Firefox_esr Mozilla 10.0.4 (including) 10.0.4 (including)
Firefox_esr Mozilla 10.0.5 (including) 10.0.5 (including)
Firefox_esr Mozilla 10.0.6 (including) 10.0.6 (including)
Firefox_esr Mozilla 10.0.7 (including) 10.0.7 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References