Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2011-0012
The SPICE Firefox plug-in (spice-xpi) 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, and possibly other versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the usbrdrctl log file, which has a predictable name.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (23.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 24th percentile — 23.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Red Hat Spice-Xpi — versions 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0426.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0899 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/47269 (vdb-entry)