CVE-2012-4208

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2012-4208 · Published 21/11/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-4208 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla), seamonkey (mozilla), thunderbird (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 81.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 17.0, 2.14 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`< 17.0`	`17.0`
seamonkey mozilla	`< 2.14`	`2.14`
thunderbird mozilla	`< 17.0`	`17.0`

Description

The XrayWrapper implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not consider the compartment during property filtering, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended chrome-only restrictions on reading DOM object properties via a crafted web site.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html · Mailing List
secunia.com/advisories/51369 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51370 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51381 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51434 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51439 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51440 · Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-99.html

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