CVE-2012-4193

medium

Published 2012-10-12 · 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

6.8

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.1, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.9, Thunderbird before 16.0.1, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.1 omit a security check in the defaultValue function during the unwrapping of security wrappers, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the properties of a Location object, or execute arbitrary JavaScript code, via a crafted web site.

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

Red Hat Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.3	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
11	Affected	—
10	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.04	Affected	—
11.10	Affected	—
11.04	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	firefox	`{"endExcluding":"16.0.1"}`	`16.0.1`
mozilla	seamonkey	`{"endExcluding":"2.13.1"}`	`2.13.1`
mozilla	thunderbird	`{"endExcluding":"16.0.1"}`	`16.0.1`
mozilla	thunderbird_esr	`{"startIncluding":"10.0","endExcluding":"10.0.9"}`	`10.0.9`

References

CWEs

CWE-346

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

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