The New Tab page in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 uses a privileged context for execution of JavaScript code by bookmarklets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to run arbitrary programs by leveraging a javascript: URL in a bookmark.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-11-21T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:28:07.583Z

Reserved: 2012-08-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-4203

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-21T12:55:01.680

Modified: 2017-09-19T01:35:19.807

Link: CVE-2012-4203

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-4203 - Bugzilla