Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-0458
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict setting the home page through the dragging of a URL to the home button, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a javascript: URL that is later interpreted in the about:sessionrestore context.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.028 (85.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr — versions 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-16.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00042.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/48402 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/48624 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-5 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/52460 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/48414 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/48359 (third-party-advisory)