CVE-2012-5837

Published Nov 21, 2012

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description
The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-79

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Evaluator

Comment
-
Impact
Per: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-102.html "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."
Solution
Per: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-102.html "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."

Configurations