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Vulnerability details: VCID-n5sw-3tyh-nbcm
Vulnerability ID VCID-n5sw-3tyh-nbcm
Aliases CVE-2012-4205
Summary Mozilla developer Gabor Krizsanits discovered that XMLHttpRequest objects created within sandboxes have the system principal instead of the sandbox principal. This can lead to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) or information theft via an add-on running untrusted code in a sandbox.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.00795 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-4205
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-97
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-4205.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-4205
877625 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877625
CVE-2012-4205 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4205
GLSA-201301-01 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01
mfsa2012-97 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-97
USN-1636-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1636-1/
USN-1638-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1638-1/
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.7427
EPSS Score 0.00795
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T08:27:23.107689+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2012/mfsa2012-97.md 38.6.0