CVE-2012-4205 — Cross-Site Request Forgery in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery7 documents6 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
8
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+5 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 21
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages7 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 17.0
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey< 2.14
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse11.4, 12.1, 12.2+2

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-mj3h-hrp4-mfr6: Mozilla Firefox before 17↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2012-4205: Mozilla Firefox before 17↗2012-11-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2012-11-21
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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2012-11-21
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Red Hat
Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest inherits incorrect principal within sandbox (MFSA 2012-97)↗2012-11-20
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4205 Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest inherits incorrect principal within sandbox (MFSA 2012-97)↗2012-11-17
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CVE-2012-4205 — Cross-Site Request Forgery in Mozilla | cvebase