Bug 877618 (CVE-2012-4203) - CVE-2012-4203 Mozilla: Javascript: URLs run in privileged context on New Tab page (MFSA 2012-95)
Summary: CVE-2012-4203 Mozilla: Javascript: URLs run in privileged context on New Tab ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-4203
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 873088
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-17 11:20 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-11-17 11:24:21 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-11-17 11:20:28 UTC 
Security researcher kakzz.ng reported that if a javascript: URL is selected from the list of Firefox "new tab" page, the script will inherit the privileges of the privileged "new tab" page. This allows for the execution of locally installed programs if a user can be convinced to save a bookmark of a malicious javascript: URL. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-95.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges kakzz.ng as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
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