CVE-2012-1966

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% 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 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 do not have the same context-menu restrictions for data: URLs as for javascript: URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+29)

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://osvdb.org/84009
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49964
http://secunia.com/advisories/49965
http://secunia.com/advisories/49972
http://secunia.com/advisories/49979
http://secunia.com/advisories/49992
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2514
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-46.html

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