Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:28:07.580Z

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

Link: CVE-2012-4205

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2012-11-21T12:55:01.837

Modified: 2020-08-21T18:45:01.517

Link: CVE-2012-4205

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2012-4205 - Bugzilla