Zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player
Cross-site scripting
CVE-2012-0767
The vulnerability was used to target Webmail accounts.
Vulnerability details
Advisory: SB2012021501 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player
Vulnerable component: Adobe Flash Player
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0767
CVSSv3 score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Description:
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-input.A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in userтАЩs browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.
External links:
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00014.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-03.html
https://blog.fortinet.com/2012/02/17/fortinet-researchers-detect-eight-critical-adobe-flaws
https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/security-update-available-for-adobe-flash-player-apsb12-03-5...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/adobe-flash-player-xss-flaw-under-active-attack/
http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/flash-zero-day-used-in-targeted-email-attacks/d/d-id/113...
http://cert.europa.eu/static/SecurityAdvisories/CERT-EU-SA2012-0019.txt