CVE-2012-4205

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-4205
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-11-21 12:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.

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-352 | 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)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 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 12.10 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 11.4 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.2 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 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 Software Development Kit 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 sp3 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
openSUSE-SU-2012:1583-1: moderate: update for MozillaFirefox af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2012:1586-1: moderate: update for xulrunner af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2012:1585-1: moderate: update for MozillaThunderbird af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA51440 - SUSE update for seamonkey - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
USN-1638-3: Firefox regressions | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2013:0175-1: important: security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA51439 - SUSE update for MozillaFirefox - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey CVE-2012-4205 Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
MFSA 2012-97: XMLHttpRequest inherits incorrect principal within sandbox af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
779821 – (CVE-2012-4205) XHR created from sandboxes end up having system principal instead of principal of the sandbox af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
USN-1638-2: ubufox update | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1592-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-1636-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA51370 - Ubuntu update for thunderbird - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Security Advisory SA51434 - SUSE update for xulrunner - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Security Advisory SA51369 - Ubuntu update for firefox - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
USN-1638-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
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