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CVE-2012-3994 (GCVE-0-2012-3994)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-10 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:21
VLAI
Summary
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 allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a binary plugin that uses Object.defineProperty to shadow the top object, and leverages the relationship between top.location and the location property.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://osvdb.org/86110 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
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http://secunia.com/advisories/50892 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56118 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/50936 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/55318 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2012-10-09 00:00
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      "id": "CVE-2012-3994",
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      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
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      "current_release_date": "2026-09-06T00:02:22Z",
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      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:45:12Z",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "47",
      "product_status:recommended": "166",
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      "status": "interim",
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      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-3994.json",
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}



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