CVE-2012-1966 — Cross-site Scripting in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-264CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting6 documents5 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.88%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJul 18
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 do not have the same context-menu restrictions for data: URLs as for javascript: URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox22 versions+21

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-fgj8-79hw-hmwq: Mozilla Firefox 4↗2022-05-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ubufox update↗2012-07-18
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2012-07-17
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Red Hat
Mozilla: XSS and code execution through data: URLs (MFSA 2012-46)↗2012-07-17
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-1966 Mozilla: XSS and code execution through data: URLs (MFSA 2012-46)↗2012-07-14
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