CVE-2012-1955

Description

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 allow remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving history.forward and history.back calls.

6.8

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 2.58% Top 20%

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Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/49977	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49992	third party advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-45.html	vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757376
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027256	vdb entry
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html	vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-2	vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027258	vdb entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17004	vdb entry signature
http://osvdb.org/83996	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/49979	third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html	vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1510-1	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49965	third party advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027257	vdb entry
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00016.html	vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00012.html	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49994	third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00013.html	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49968	third party advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-1	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49993	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49972	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54586	vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2012-1955?: CVE-2012-1955 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2012-1955?: To fix CVE-2012-1955, 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-2012-1955 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2012-1955 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~3% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.