Security Advisory

CVE-2012-1957

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-07-18 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 19:17:27
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

An unspecified parser-utility class in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 does not properly handle EMBED elements within description elements in RSS feeds, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a feed.