CVE-2012-0449 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions prior to 3.6.26/4.x-9.0, 3.1.18/5.0-9.0, and 2.7 respectively. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to open a document containing a specially crafted XSLT stylesheet. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it is a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited over a network with medium attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability has a high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.6.26CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.0, < 10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.1.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.0, < 10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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