Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 do not prevent use of the Object.defineProperty method to shadow the location object (aka window.location), which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving a plugin.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:17:27.097Z

Reserved: 2012-03-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-1956

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-08-29T10:56:39.737

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-1956

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-1956 - Bugzilla

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