CVE-2012-3984 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-3984

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before...

Vulnerability Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly handle navigation away from a web page that has a SELECT element's menu active, which allows remote attackers to spoof page content via vectors involving absolute positioning and scrolling.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird, ubuntu linux, linux enterprise desktop, linux enterprise server
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, 10, 11

Timeline

Official Publish: October 10th, 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.