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CVE-2012-4210 Detail

Description

The Style Inspector in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 does not properly restrict the context of HTML markup and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted stylesheet.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/51359 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-104.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56646 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796866 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80182 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16833 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-4210
NVD Published Date:
11/21/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
MITRE