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CVE-2012-5836
Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause…
High7.5EPSS 4.5%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving the setting of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) properties in conjunction with SVG text.
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)
- 4.5% · top 8.6% 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
n/a
- affected n/a
References (21)
- USN-1638-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 51370 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-1638-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16336 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1586 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-1636-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0175 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-94.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 51434 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1583 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 51439 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 51440 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 56616 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-1638-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1592 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1585 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 51381 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- firefox-svg-dos(80172) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 51369 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 87593 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792857 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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 .