CVE-2012-5837

The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2012-11-21

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-79, CWE-94

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
• http://osvdb.org/87586
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51434
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51439
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-102.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56645
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800363
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80180
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16542