CVE-2012-0455
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict drag-and-drop operations on javascript: URLs, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web page, related to a "DragAndDropJacking" issue.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 1.7% (77th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0487)
- Published
- March 14, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0487 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox esr
- mozilla / firefox esr
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00042.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0387.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0388.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48359
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48402
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48414
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48495(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48496(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48513(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48553(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48561(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48624(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48629(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48823(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48920(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2433(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2458
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:031
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:032
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-13.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52458
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-2(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-3(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-4(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-5(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1401-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704354(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14829(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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