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CVE-2012-1957

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2012-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An unspecified parser-utility class in 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 does not properly handle EMBED elements within description elements in RSS feeds, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a feed.

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/84000
• 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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