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CVE-2012-3990
Use-after-free vulnerability in the IME State Manager implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8,…
High9.3EPSS 5.2%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the IME State Manager implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to the nsIContent::GetNameSpaceID function.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.2% · top 7.5% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (19)
- 50904 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50984 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50935 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-87.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 50856 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-2565 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 50892 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- firefox-nsicontent-code-exec(79172) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- DSA-2572 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16642 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 50936 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 51181 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787704 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 55318 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:163 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- USN-1611-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-2569 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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)
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