CVE-2012-1966
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CVE-2012-1966 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 do not have the same context-menu restrictions for data: URLs as for javascript: URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL.. EPSS estimates a 2.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 do not have the same context-menu restrictions for data: URLs as for javascript: URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL.
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Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0.1 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 5.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 5.0.1 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0.1 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0.2 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 7.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 7.0.1 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 8.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 8.0.1 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 9.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 9.0.1 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 11.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 12.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 13.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.1 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.2 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.3 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.4 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.5 |
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