Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-3973
The debugger in the developer-tools subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, when remote debugging is disabled, does not properly restrict access to the remote-debugging service, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the presence of the HTTPMonitor extension and connecting to that service through the HTTPMonitor port.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.6 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.049 (91.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.049 · newest: 0.049 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17039 (signature, vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-66.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/55308 (vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/85005 (vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html (vendor-advisory)