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medium 6.4

CVE-2012-1950 json

The drag-and-drop implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 allows remote attackers to spoof th…

published 2012-07-18 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-1959

cvss
6.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The drag-and-drop implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar by canceling a page load.

Patch / fix

  • firefox RHEL 5 10.0.6-1.el5_8
  • firefox RHEL 6 10.0.6-1.el6_3
  • xulrunner RHEL 5 10.0.6-2.el5_8
  • xulrunner RHEL 6 10.0.6-1.el6_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:1088

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

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

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-2012-1950 updated cvss 4.3

Mozilla: Incorrect URL displayed in addressbar through drag and drop (MFSA 2012-43)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 10.0.6-1.el5_8, xulrunner 10.0.6-2.el5_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 10.0.6-1.el5_8, xulrunner 10.0.6-2.el5_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 10.0.6-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.6-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.6-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 10.0.6-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.6-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 10.0.6-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.6-1.el6_3
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.6-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 10.0.6-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.6-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.6-1.el6_3 Red Hat RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) xulrunner 10.0.6-2.el5_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1088

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Exploit prediction

1.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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.