CVE-2012-0445 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0445?

CVE-2012-0445 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 1 Feb 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 allow remote attackers to bypass the HTML5 frame-navigation policy and replace arbitrary sub-frames by creating a form submission target with a sub-frame's name attribute.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0445?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0445?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2012-0445 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0445 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
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All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c436-xm59-5fhc.