CVE-2012-0450 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0450?

CVE-2012-0450 is a low-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 1 Feb 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standard filesystem operations.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0450?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0450?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-0450 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-0450 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h77w-4p5f-2cg9.