National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1964

Overview

The certificate-warning functionality in browser/components/certerror/content/aboutCertError.xhtml in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 does not properly handle attempted clickjacking of the about:certerror page, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trick users into adding an unintended exception via an IFRAME element.

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=633691

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633691

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-54.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-54.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1088

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0899

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00013.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:0896

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00012.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:0895

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html