CVE-2012-3965

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 does not properly restrict navigation to the about:newtab page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site that triggers creation of a new tab and then a new window.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 14.0; 1.0, 1.0-preview_release, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+140)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-60.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16442
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-60.html

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