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CVE-2012-0454
Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0,…
High7.5EPSS 3.3%
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- mitre
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 on 32-bit Windows 7 platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of the file-open dialog in a child window, related to the IUnknown_QueryService function in the Windows shlwapi.dll library.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (11)
- 48402 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:0424 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14258 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 48629 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-12.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:032 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 1026803 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 48561 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1026801 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684555 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1026804 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .