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CVE-2012-4209

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2012-11-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 do not prevent use of a "top" frame name-attribute value to access the location property, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving a binary plugin.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
• Mozilla Firefox: before 17.0; from 10.0 before 10.0.11 — fixed in 10.0.11, 17.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.14 — fixed in 2.14
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 17.0 — fixed in 17.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: from 10.0 before 10.0.11 — fixed in 10.0.11
• Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0, 6.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10-sp4, 11-sp2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10-sp4, 11-sp2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 10-sp4, 11-sp2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 10.0.11, 17.0; Mozilla Seamonkey 2.14; Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0; Mozilla Thunderbird ESR 10.0.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51359
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51360
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51381

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