National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0450

Overview

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standard filesystem operations.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716868

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716868

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-keyhtml-info-disclosure(72869)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72869

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-09.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-09.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:013

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14670

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14670

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 78741

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/78741

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0234

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html