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CVE-2012-0458 json

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunder…

published 2012-03-14 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-0490

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict setting the home page through the dragging of a URL to the home button, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a javascript: URL that is later interpreted in the about:sessionrestore context.

Patch / fix

  • thunderbird RHEL 5 PRODUCTIVITY, RHEL 5 10.0.3-1.el5_8
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 10.0.3-1.el6_2
  • firefox RHEL 5 10.0.3-1.el5_8
  • firefox RHEL 6 10.0.3-1.el6_2
  • xulrunner RHEL 5 10.0.3-1.el5_8
  • xulrunner RHEL 6 10.0.3-1.el6_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:0388RHSA-2012:0387

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 50.1.0-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 45.5.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-0458 updated cvss 6.8

Mozilla: Escalation of privilege with Javascript: URL as home page (MFSA 2012-16)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 firefox
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 10.0.3-1.el5_8, xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el5_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 10.0.3-1.el5_8, xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el5_8, thunderbird 10.0.3-1.el5_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 10.0.3-1.el6_2, xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el6_2, thunderbird 10.0.3-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 10.0.3-1.el6_2, xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 10.0.3-1.el6_2, xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el6_2
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el6_2, thunderbird 10.0.3-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 10.0.3-1.el6_2, xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el6_2, thunderbird 10.0.3-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el6_2 Red Hat RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) xulrunner 10.0.3-1.el5_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:0387
  • Red Hat RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 10.0.3-1.el5_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:0388

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Exploit prediction

2.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718203 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.