UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5883

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5883

    Published: 16 Nov 2012Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-5883

    Summary:

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Flash component infrastructure in YUI 2.8.0 through 2.9.0, as used in Bugzilla 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.9, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to swfstore.swf, a similar issue to CVE-2010-4209.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5883, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=808845, http://yuilibrary.com/support/20121030-vulnerability/, http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/11/05/post-mortem-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/, http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/10/30/security-announcement-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/, http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5883

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: yui

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.9.0.dfsg.0.1-0.1

    Affected versions

    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