CVE-2012-4196

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Published 2012-10-29 · 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

6.4

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.2, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, Thunderbird before 16.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.2 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the Location object via a prototype property-injection attack that defeats certain protection mechanisms for this object.

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 4 releases

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

SUSE Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.2	Affected	—
12.1	Affected	—
11.4	Affected	—
11	Affected	—
10	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 5 releases

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

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	firefox	`{"endExcluding":"16.0.2"}`	`16.0.2`
mozilla	seamonkey	`{"endExcluding":"2.13.2"}`	`2.13.2`
mozilla	thunderbird	`{"endExcluding":"16.0.2"}`	`16.0.2`
mozilla	thunderbird_esr	`{"startIncluding":"10.0","endExcluding":"10.0.10"}`	`10.0.10`

References

CWEs

CWE-74

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

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