CVE-2012-1965

Summary

CVECVE-2012-1965
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-07-18 10:26:49 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 do not properly establish the security context of a feed: URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass unspecified cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a feed:javascript: URL.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox 10.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 10.0.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 10.0.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 10.0.4 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 10.0.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 11.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 12.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 12.0 beta6 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 13.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta1 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta10 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta11 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta12 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta2 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta3 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta4 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta5 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta6 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta7 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta8 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta9 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 5.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 6.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 6.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 7.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 8.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 8.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 9.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 9.0.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0896-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
USN-1509-2: ubufox update | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Spoof Web Sites, Obtain Information, and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
USN-1509-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Mozilla Firefox CVE-2012-1965 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
MFSA 2012-55: feed: URLs with an innerURI inherit security context of page af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
758990 – (CVE-2012-1965) Don't allow feed: URLs with an innerURI that inherits the page's security context af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
osvdb.org/84012 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:0899-1: critical: MozillaFirefox to af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Security Advisory SA49979 - Red Hat update for firefox - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA49972 - Ubuntu update for firefox - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0895-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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