CVE-2012-3993

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in 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 does not properly interact with failures of InstallTrigger methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site, related to an "XrayWrapper pollution" issue.

CVSS v2.0

9.3 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

42.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile

Published

2012-10-10

Updated

2024-08-06

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proto_crmf…

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30474

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2012-3953
• CVE-2012-3996
• CVE-2012-3952
• CVE-2012-4000
• CVE-2012-3951
• CVE-2012-4029