CVE-2012-5840Not scoredCWE-416

CVE-2012-5840: Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

Mozilla · Firefox

Vendor fix available · Affected: Mozilla Firefox · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

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6.1%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

93rd percentile

050100

Higher than 93% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4214.

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Use After Free · Memory Corruption
Vendor: Mozilla
Published: November 2012
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), November 2012

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