CVE-2012-4194

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.2, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, Thunderbird before 16.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.2 do not prevent use of the valueOf method to shadow the location object (aka window.location), which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving a plugin.

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

2.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 86th percentile

Published

2012-10-29

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800666

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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