RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2011-2378
The appendChild function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, SeaMonkey 2.x, and possibly other products does not properly handle DOM objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to dereferencing of a "dangling pointer."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.056 (92.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 92.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.056 · newest: 0.056 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2297 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2296 (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1166.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2295 (vendor-advisory)