Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-3991
Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly restrict JSAPI access to the GetProperty function, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.031 (87.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 11.04, 11.10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 6.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 5.0, 6.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop — versions 10, 11
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secunia.com/advisories/50904 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/50984 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/50935 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/50856 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2565 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/50892 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/55930 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2572 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2012-3991?
- CVE-2012-3991 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under CWE-264. Published 2012-10-10.
- Is CVE-2012-3991 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.