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CVE-2011-2378

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2378 describes a critical vulnerability in the appendChild function of Mozilla Firefox (before 3.6.20), Thunderbird (3.x before 3.1.12), and SeaMonkey (2.x), allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through unspecified vectors leading to a dangling pointer dereference. This vulnerability carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a severe risk with network-based attacks, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.6.19CPE 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

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0556 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (10)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:3.1.12-1.el6_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:3.6.20-2.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:3.6.20-2.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:1.9.2.20-2.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:3.6.20-2.el6_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xulrunner-0:1.9.2.20-2.el6_1
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 5.7Fixed in: firefox
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.1Fixed in: firefox
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.1Fixed in: thunderbird

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2378Critical

Mozilla: Dangling pointer vulnerability in appendChild

Aug 16, 2011

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14163
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2295
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2296
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2297
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1166.html
Vendor Advisory