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CVE-2012-4205

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-11-20	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2012-4205 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-4205
Phase	Assigned(20120808)

Description

Mozilla 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.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779821
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1583
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1585
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1586
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:1592
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2013:0175
UBUNTU	USN-1638-1
UBUNTU	USN-1638-3
UBUNTU	USN-1638-2
UBUNTU	USN-1636-1
BID	56621
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16965
SECUNIA	51369
SECUNIA	51381
SECUNIA	51434
SECUNIA	51439
SECUNIA	51440
SECUNIA	51370
XF	firefox-xmlhttprequest-sec-bypass(80175)