XSS in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-1957
An unspecified parser-utility class in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 does not properly handle EMBED elements within description elements in RSS feeds, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a feed.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.021 (79.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1
- Mozilla Thunderbird_esr — versions 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)