CVE-2012-4205 | BDVDB-2026-53537 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779821
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16965
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.