Use After Free in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2012-5830
Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 on Mac OS X allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document.
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.038 (90.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.038 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 11.10, 12.04
- openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.1, 12.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 6.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0, 6.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/51370 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80183 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2012-5830?
- CVE-2012-5830 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2012-11-21.
- How severe is CVE-2012-5830?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.