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CVE-2012-3993

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Publication date:
10/10/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in 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 does not properly interact with failures of InstallTrigger methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site, related to an "XrayWrapper pollution" issue.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:10.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:10.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:10.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:10.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:10.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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