CVE-2012-0445

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 allow remote attackers to bypass the HTML5 frame-navigation policy and replace arbitrary sub-frames by creating a form submission target with a sub-frame's name attribute.

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.54%
Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory mozilla.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701071
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72835 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055 third party advisory
http://osvdb.org/78735 vdb entry
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013 vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14907 signature vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51765 vdb entry
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-03.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2012-0445?
CVE-2012-0445 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2012-0445?
To fix CVE-2012-0445, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2012-0445 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2012-0445 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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