CVE-2012-0450

N/A Unknown

Published: February 01, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/78741

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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