CVE-2012-3965

high

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 does not properly restrict navigation to the about:newtab page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site that triggers creation of a new tab and then a new window.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16442

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769108

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-60.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-29

Updated: 2017-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High