CVE-2012-0450

N/A

Published: February 1, 2012 at 04:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorFirefoxSeamonkey· also runs on 2 platforms

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.3%

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standard filesystem operations.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Firefox · Mozilla

95%

4.0 4.0 beta1 4.0 beta10 4.0 beta11 4.0 beta12 4.0 beta2 4.0 beta3 4.0 beta4 4.0 beta5 4.0 beta6 4.0 beta7 4.0 beta8 4.0 beta9 4.0.1 5.0 5.0.1 6.0 6.0.1 6.0.2 7.0 8.0 8.0.1 9.0

apple-macos (environment) · linux-linux-kernel (environment)

Seamonkey · Mozilla

95%

apple-macos (environment) · linux-linux-kernel (environment)

Runs on — not affected

The affected product only carries this flaw when running on these platforms. The platforms themselves are not vulnerable.

macOS · Apple

95%

Linux Kernel · Linux

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (7)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://osvdb.org/78741

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-09.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716868

VDB Entryx_refsource_XF

Source: [email protected]

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72869

VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL

Source: [email protected]

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14670

CVSS

2.1LOW[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: NONE
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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