MFSA2012-95 Firefox: Javascript: URLs run in privileged context on New Tab page (CVE-2012-4203)
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
11/20/2012
07/25/2018
11/21/2012
04/05/2017
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-17_0
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