CVE-2012-1955

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 allow remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving history.forward and history.back calls.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+29)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.10; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+62)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 7.0.1 (+11)
Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00016.html
http://osvdb.org/83996
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49965
http://secunia.com/advisories/49968
http://secunia.com/advisories/49972
http://secunia.com/advisories/49977
http://secunia.com/advisories/49979
http://secunia.com/advisories/49992

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