Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2012-4205 First vendor Publication 2012-11-21
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2020-08-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4205

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16965
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16965
Title: 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.
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.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2012-4205
Version: 18
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Product(s): Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 313
Application 155
Application 216
Os 4
Os 3
Os 2
Os 3
Os 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-04 Name : Ubuntu Update for firefox USN-1638-3
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1638_3.nasl
2012-11-26 Name : FreeBSD Ports: firefox
File : nvt/freebsd_firefox72.nasl
2012-11-26 Name : Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities-02 November12 (Mac OS X)
File : nvt/gb_mozilla_prdts_mult_vuln02_nov12_macosx.nasl
2012-11-26 Name : Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities-02 November12 (Windows)
File : nvt/gb_mozilla_prdts_mult_vuln02_nov12_win.nasl
2012-11-26 Name : Mozilla SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities-02 November12 (Windows)
File : nvt/gb_mozilla_seamonkey_mult_vuln02_nov12_win.nasl
2012-11-26 Name : Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities-02 November12 (Windows)
File : nvt/gb_mozilla_thunderbird_mult_vuln02_nov12_win.nasl
2012-11-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for thunderbird USN-1636-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1636_1.nasl
2012-11-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for firefox USN-1638-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1638_1.nasl
2012-11-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for ubufox USN-1638-2
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1638_2.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-820.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-819.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-818.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-817.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_firefox-20121121-121123.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201301-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1638-3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-29 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_firefox-20121121-8381.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1636-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1638-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1638-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-21 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : seamonkey_214.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-21 Name : The remote Windows host contains a mail client that is potentially affected b...
File : mozilla_thunderbird_170.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-21 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_170.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-21 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a mail client that is potentially affected ...
File : macosx_thunderbird_17_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-21 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_firefox_17_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-21 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_d23119df335d11e2b64cc8600054b392.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56621
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779821
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
http://secunia.com/advisories/51381
http://secunia.com/advisories/51434
http://secunia.com/advisories/51439
http://secunia.com/advisories/51440
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80175

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