CVE-2012-4193

Summary

CVE	CVE-2012-4193
State	PUBLISHED
Assigner	mitre
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2012-10-12 10:44:20 UTC
Updated	2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Description	Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.1, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.9, Thunderbird before 16.0.1, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.1 omit a security check in the defaultValue function during the unwrapping of security wrappers, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the properties of a Location object, or execute arbitrary JavaScript code, via a crafted web site.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-346 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector

Network

Access Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Mozilla	Firefox	All	All	All	All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

Source	Vendor	Product	Version	Platforms
CNA	Na	N/a	affected n/a	Not specified

References

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
Red Hat Customer Portal	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	rhn.redhat.com	Third Party Advisory
USN-1611-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities \| Ubuntu	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.ubuntu.com	Third Party Advisory
Security Alerts - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research \| Flexera	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA50907 - Red Hat update for thunderbird - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
MFSA 2012-89: defaultValue security checks not applied	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.mozilla.org	Vendor Advisory
About Secunia Research \| Flexera	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
720619 – (CVE-2012-4193) Lack of security check for [[DefaultValue]]	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	bugzilla.mozilla.org	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
About Secunia Research \| Flexera	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1351-1: important: Security update for	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	lists.opensuse.org	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	rhn.redhat.com	Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Repository / Oval Repository	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	oval.cisecurity.org	Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA50906 - Red Hat update for xulrunner - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.

Legacy QID Mappings

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