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    CVE-2012-4196

    Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.2, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, Thunderbird before 16.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.2 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the Location object via a prototype property-injection attack that defeats certain protection mechanisms for this object.

    Published:Oct 26, 2012
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Oct 29, 2012
    EPSS Score:0.00964
    CVSS Score:6.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Ubuntu Linux
    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Firefox
    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Seamonkey
    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Thunderbird
    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Thunderbird Esr
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Desktop
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Workstation
    Vendor
    Suse
    Product
    Linux Enterprise Desktop
    Vendor
    Suse
    Product
    Linux Enterprise Server
    Vendor
    Suse
    Product
    Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit

    Exploits

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=802557https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=802557

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-105 HTTP Request Splitting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-273 HTTP Response Smuggling
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-34 HTTP Response Splitting
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-6 Argument Injection
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-84 XQuery Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00019.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00025.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1407.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1413.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51121
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51123
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51127
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51144
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51146
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51147
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51165
    http://secunia.com/advisories/55318
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-90.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56306
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1620-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1620-2
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=802557
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16962
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00019.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00025.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1407.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1413.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51121
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51123
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51127
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51144
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51146
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51147
    http://secunia.com/advisories/51165
    http://secunia.com/advisories/55318
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-90.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56306
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1620-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1620-2
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=802557
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16962

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High