CVE-2012-5883

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Flash component infrastructure in YUI 2.8.0 through 2.9.0, as used in Bugzilla 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.9, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to swfstore.swf, a similar issue to CVE-2010-4209.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 3.7, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 4.0, 4.0-rc1 (+23)
yahoo Yui: 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.1-pr1, 2.8.2, 2.9.0, 2.9.0-pr2 (+1)

References

http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:066
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56385
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/10/30/security-announcement-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/11/05/post-mortem-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/
http://yuilibrary.com/support/20121030-vulnerability/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=808845
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80116
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:066
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56385
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/10/30/security-announcement-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/

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