CVE-2012-4193 describes a security bypass vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions prior to their respective 16.0.1/10.0.9/2.13.1 releases. The flaw stems from an omitted security check in the defaultValue function during security wrapper unwrapping, allowing remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy. This medium-complexity attack (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N) could lead to information disclosure (C:P) by reading Location object properties or arbitrary code execution (I:P/A:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 16.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 10.0, < 10.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.13.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 16.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 10.0, < 10.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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