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CVE-2012-0458

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
14/03/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

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

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.6.27 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.0 (excluding) 10.0 (including)
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:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.0 (including) 3.1.19 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.0 (excluding) 10.0 (including)
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:seamonkey:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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