CVE-2012-3985 (GCVE-0-2012-3985)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-10 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:21
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly implement the HTML5 Same Origin Policy, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging initial-origin access after document.domain has been set.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/50935 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/50856 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://osvdb.org/86106 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/50892 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655649 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfs… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2012-10-09 00:00
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