VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0450

low
Published 2012-02-01 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standard filesystem operations.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox7.0
mozilla mozillafirefox8.0
mozilla mozillafirefox8.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox9.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.7"}
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.15
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.16
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.17
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.18
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.19
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.4.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.6.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.7

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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