CVE-2012-0479: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 allow remote attackers to spoof the address bar via an https URL for invalid (1) RSS or (2) Atom XML content.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; …
  • Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.9; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; …
  • Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only

Published 2012-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.