CVE-2012-3984

Summary

CVECVE-2012-3984
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-10-10 17:55:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-26 19:36:00 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly handle navigation away from a web page that has a SELECT element's menu active, which allows remote attackers to spoof page content via vectors involving absolute positioning and scrolling.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
MFSA 2012-75: select element persistance allows for attacks CONFIRM www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
USN-1611-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Broken Link
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Broken Link
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Broken Link
575294 – (CVE-2012-3984) Navigation away from a page with an active <select> dropdown menu can be used for URL spoofing, other evil CONFIRM bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA50935 - Mozilla SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Broken Link
Security Advisory SA50892 - Ubuntu update for firefox - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Broken Link
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1351-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690312 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mozilla (6e5a9afd-12d3-11e2-b47d-c8600054b392)
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