CVE-2012-4205 Cross-site request forgery in n/a
Remote attackers can exploit a privilege escalation in sandboxed add-ons to perform CSRF attacks or read sensitive data in Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2012-4205?
CVE-2012-4205 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 21 Nov 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 before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4205?
It affects 8 products.
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop and 2 more.
How do I fix CVE-2012-4205?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2012-4205 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4205 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mj3h-hrp4-mfr6.