CVE-2012-4208

Mozilla: XrayWrappers exposes chrome-only properties when not in chrome compartment (MFSA 2012-99)

Published Nov 21, 2012 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 2.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The XrayWrapper implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not consider the compartment during property filtering, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended chrome-only restrictions on reading DOM object properties via a crafted web site.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-4152 The XrayWrapper implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not consider the compartment during property filtering, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended chrome-only restrictions on reading DOM object properties via a crafted web site.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1636-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1638-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
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