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CVE-2012-0459

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0459 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the CSS implementation of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions 4.x through 10.0. An attacker can trigger an application crash or potentially execute arbitrary code by dynamically modifying a keyframe and then accessing its cssText. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta11:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta12:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0376 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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 (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:10.0.3-1.el5_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:10.0.3-1.el5_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:10.0.3-1.el5_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:10.0.3-1.el6_2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:10.0.3-1.el6_2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xulrunner-0:10.0.3-1.el6_2
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0459Critical

Mozilla: Crash when accessing keyframe cssText after dynamic modification (MFSA 2012-17)

Mar 13, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00042.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0387.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0388.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/48359
secunia.com / advisories/48402
secunia.com / advisories/48496
secunia.com / advisories/48513
secunia.com / advisories/48553
secunia.com / advisories/48561
secunia.com / advisories/48629
secunia.com / advisories/49055
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15066
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-17.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1400-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1400-2
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1400-3
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1400-4
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1400-5