CVE-2012-1957 (GCVE-0-2012-1957)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-07-18 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An unspecified parser-utility class in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 does not properly handle EMBED elements within description elements in RSS feeds, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a feed.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/49977 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/49992 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/84000 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027256 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16844 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-2 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027258 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/49979 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1510-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/49965 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027257 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00016.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54583 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-47.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750096 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00012.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/49994 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00013.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/49968 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/49993 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/49972 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
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