CVE-2012-0475

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 do not properly construct the Origin and Sec-WebSocket-Origin HTTP headers, which might allow remote attackers to bypass an IPv6 literal ACL via a cross-site (1) XMLHttpRequest or (2) WebSocket operation involving a nonstandard port number and an IPv6 address that contains certain zero fields.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.6 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2012-04-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Seamonkey (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/48972
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49047
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-28.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53230
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694576
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75153
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16279