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CVE-2011-1712

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1712 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey that allows remote attackers to disclose heap memory addresses. Specifically, the txXPathNodeUtils::getXSLTId function can be exploited via a specially crafted XML document containing a call to the XSLT generate-id XPath function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial confidentiality impact, but no integrity or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code or significant community discussion has been identified.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.5.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0:preview_release:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0107 is in the 23rd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-1712Low

firefox: information leak due to XSLT

Mar 9, 2011

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Patch
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com / 2011/03/multi-browser-heap-address-leak-in-xslt.html
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/66836
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14467
mozilla.org / security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-18.html
Vendor Advisory