Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2011-1712
The txXPathNodeUtils::getXSLTId function in txMozillaXPathTreeWalker.cpp and txStandaloneXPathTreeWalker.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.19, 3.6.x before 3.6.17, and 4.x before 4.0.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.14, allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about heap memory addresses via an XML document containing a call to the XSLT generate-id XPath function.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (63.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 63.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-18.html (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66836 (vdb-entry)
- scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/03/multi-browser-heap-address-leak-in-xslt… (Exploit)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14467 (signature, vdb-entry)