CVE-2012-3993
The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 does not properly interact with failures of InstallTrigger methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site, related to an "XrayWrapper pollution" issue.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-269
- EPSS score
- 42.6% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3937)
- Published
- October 10, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3937 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/86111(Broken Link)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50856(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50892(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50904(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50935(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50936(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50984(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55318(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-83.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56119(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768101(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79153(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16718(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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