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Medium
CVE-2012-1966
Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before...
Vulnerability Description
Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 do not have the same context-menu restrictions for data: URLs as for javascript: URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49992
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2514
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027256
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-2
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17037
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49979
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html
- http://osvdb.org/84009
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-46.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49965
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54577
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734076
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49964
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00013.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49972
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Vulnerable Versions:
4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0, 5.0.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 7.0.1, 8.0, 8.0.1, 9.0, 9.0.1, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5
Timeline
Official Publish:
July 18th, 2012
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.