Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird 16 location.hash access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 16 and classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument location.hash leads to access control. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2012-3992. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 16 (Web Browser). This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument location.hash with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly manage history data, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive POST content via vectors involving a location.hash write operation and history navigation that triggers the loading of a URL into the history object.

The weakness was presented 10/09/2012 by Mariusz Mlynski (moz_bug_r_a4) as MFSA 2012-84 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with Mozilla. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-3992 since 07/11/2012. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 62484 (CentOS 5 / 6 : firefox (CESA-2012:1350)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 120583 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2012:1350)).

Upgrading to version 16 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (62484), SecurityFocus (BID 56128†), OSVDB (86112†), Secunia (SA50936†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1027631†). See VDB-6053, VDB-6636, VDB-6637 and VDB-6639 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Nessus ID: 62484
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 / 6 : firefox (CESA-2012:1350)
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OpenVAS ID: 72477
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: firefox
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox/Thunderbird 16

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2012-84
Researcher: Mariusz Mlynski (moz_bug_r_a4)
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CVE: CVE-2012-3992 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-3992
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-6653

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SecurityFocus: 56128
Secunia: 50936 - Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 86112
SecurityTracker: 1027631 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Spoof Information, and Inject Scripting Code
Vulnerability Center: 36469 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey XSS via Location.hash Write Operation, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/12/2012 12:52
Updated: 10/22/2024 03:28
Changes: 10/12/2012 12:52 (79), 01/31/2018 09:54 (9), 04/18/2021 08:29 (2), 10/22/2024 03:28 (17)
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