CVE-2012-3985

Medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly implement the HTML5 Same Origin Policy, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging initial-origin access after document.domain has been set.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedOct 10, 2012
First seenOct 10, 2012

How to fix

Update
  • mozilla firefox16.0 or later
  • mozilla seamonkey2.13 or later
  • mozilla thunderbird16.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv < 16.016.0
mozilla seamonkeyv < 2.132.13
mozilla thunderbirdv < 16.016.0
canonical ubuntu_linux10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04—
suse linux_enterprise_desktop10, 11—
suse linux_enterprise_server10, 11—

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