CVE-2012-3987

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0 on Android assigns chrome privileges to Reader Mode pages, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted web site.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 15.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+159)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
http://osvdb.org/86107
http://secunia.com/advisories/50856
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-78.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778582
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
http://osvdb.org/86107
http://secunia.com/advisories/50856
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-78.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778582

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