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CVE-2012-0455

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict drag-and-drop operations on javascript: URLs, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web page, related to a "DragAndDropJacking" issue.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 3.6.27; 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+20)
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: 10.1, 10.2
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.7
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.1.19; 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 8.0, 9.0 (+1)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00042.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0387.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0388.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48359
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48402
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48414
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48495
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48496
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48513
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48553

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