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Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1304-FIREFOX-643249
  • published21 Nov 2012
  • disclosed21 Nov 2012
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Introduced: 21 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-4205  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:13.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.

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