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CVE-2012-1959

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% 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-264

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 do not consider the presence of same-compartment security wrappers (SCSW) during the cross-compartment wrapping of objects, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended XBL access restrictions via crafted content.

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/84002
• 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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