CVE-2012-3975 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure7 documents6 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 23.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The DOMParser component in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 loads subresources during parsing of text/html data within an extension, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by providing crafted data to privileged extension code.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox14.0+130
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey2.11+32
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird14.0+99

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h9mf-392q-233m: The DOMParser component in Mozilla Firefox before 15↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2012-3975: The DOMParser component in Mozilla Firefox before 15↗2012-08-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2012-08-30
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2012-08-29
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Red Hat
Mozilla: DOMParser loads linked resources in extensions when parsing text/html (MFSA 2012-68)↗2012-08-28
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-3975 Mozilla: DOMParser loads linked resources in extensions when parsing text/html (MFSA 2012-68)↗2012-08-27
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