CVE-2012-4192

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox 16.0, Thunderbird 16.0, and SeaMonkey 2.13 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the properties of a Location object via a crafted web site, a related issue to CVE-2012-4193.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 16.0
Mozilla Seamonkey: 2.13
Mozilla Thunderbird: 16.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50904
http://secunia.com/advisories/50929
http://secunia.com/advisories/50984
http://secunia.com/advisories/55318
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-89.html
http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2012/10/10/firefox-knows-what-your-friends-did-last-summer/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1608-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799952
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79210
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17095

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