Bug 877631 (CVE-2012-5837) - CVE-2012-5837 Mozilla: Script entered into Developer Toolbar runs with chrome privileges (MFSA 2012-102)
Summary: CVE-2012-5837 Mozilla: Script entered into Developer Toolbar runs with chrome...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-5837
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 873088
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-17 11:57 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 21:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-11-17 11:58:37 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-11-17 11:57:45 UTC 
Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported that when script is entered into the Developer Toolbar, it runs in a chrome privileged context. This allows for arbitrary code execution or cross-site scripting (XSS) if a user can be convinced to paste malicious code into the Developer Toolbar. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-102.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Masato Kinugawa 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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