CVE-2012-0445

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 allow remote attackers to bypass the HTML5 frame-navigation policy and replace arbitrary sub-frames by creating a form submission target with a sub-frame's name attribute.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+17)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.7; 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+89)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 8.0 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html
http://osvdb.org/78735
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-03.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51765
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701071
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72835
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14907
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html
http://osvdb.org/78735
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055

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