CVE-2012-5837
published 2012-11-21CVE-2012-5837: The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct…
PriorityP421medium6.8CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCPIPAP
EPSS
2.26%
81.2th percentile
The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.
Affected
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CVSS provenance
nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
vendor_redhat6.8MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu4.3MEDIUM
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GHSA
GHSA-jmrm-6r25-5p6x: The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2012-5837 [MEDIUM] CWE-79 GHSA-jmrm-6r25-5p6x: The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17
The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.
Ubuntu
Firefox regressions
vendor_ubuntu·2012-12-03·CVSS 4.3
[MEDIUM] Firefox regressions
Title: Firefox regressions
Summary: Regressions were introduced in the last Firefox update.
USN-1638-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The new packages introduced
regressions in cookies handling and the User Agent string. This update fixes
the problem.
Original advisory details:
Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bob Clary, Kyle Huey, Ed
Morley, Chris Lord, Boris Zbarsky, Julian Seward, Bill McCloskey, and
Andrew McCreight discovered multiple memory safety issues affecting
Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an
attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via
application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the
user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-5842, CVE-2012-5843)
Atte Kettunen discovered a bu
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2012-11-21·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2012-5842 [MEDIUM] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.
Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bob Clary, Kyle Huey, Ed
Morley, Chris Lord, Boris Zbarsky, Julian Seward, Bill McCloskey, and
Andrew McCreight discovered multiple memory safety issues affecting
Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an
attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via
application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the
user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-5842, CVE-2012-5843)
Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow while rendering GIF format
images. An attacker could exploit this to possibly execute arbitrary code
as the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-4202)
It was discovered that the evalInSa
Red Hat
Mozilla: Script entered into Developer Toolbar runs with chrome privileges (MFSA 2012-102)
vendor_redhat·2012-11-20·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2012-5837 [MEDIUM] Mozilla: Script entered into Developer Toolbar runs with chrome privileges (MFSA 2012-102)
Mozilla: Script entered into Developer Toolbar runs with chrome privileges (MFSA 2012-102)
The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.
Statement: This issue does not affect the version of firefox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
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2012-11-21
Published