CVE-2012-4196

MediumCVSS 6.4/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.2, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, Thunderbird before 16.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.2 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the Location object via a prototype property-injection attack that defeats certain protection mechanisms for this object.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.4/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-74

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Oct 29, 2012
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2012-4196: Medium severity, CVSS 6.4 | Vulnix