CVE-2012-5837

Mozilla Firefox < 16.0.2 - Code Injection

Title source: rule

Description

The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.

References (16)

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-102.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80180

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56645

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800363

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://osvdb.org/87586

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16542

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/51369

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/51434

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/51439

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0143

EPSS Percentile 80.5%

Details

CWE

CWE-94 CWE-79

Status published

Products (50)

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox < 16.0.2

mozilla/firefox

... and 40 more

Published Nov 21, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026