The XrayWrapper implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not consider the compartment during property filtering, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended chrome-only restrictions on reading DOM object properties via a crafted web site.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-4152 The XrayWrapper implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not consider the compartment during property filtering, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended chrome-only restrictions on reading DOM object properties via a crafted web site.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1636-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1638-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:28:07.605Z

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

Link: CVE-2012-4208

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-11-21T12:55:02.103

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

Link: CVE-2012-4208

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2012-4208 - Bugzilla

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