RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-5837
The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.023 (82.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 82.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-102.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html (vendor-advisory)
- osvdb.org/87586 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/51434 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/51439 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/56645 (vdb-entry)