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CVE-2012-1951

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1951 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions. This flaw, specifically within the nsSMILTimeValueSpec::IsEventBased function, allows remote attackers to trigger heap memory corruption, leading to denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

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

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
5.54%
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 0.0554 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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-0:10.0.6-1.el5_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:10.0.6-1.el5_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:10.0.6-2.el5_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:10.0.6-1.el6_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:10.0.6-1.el6_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xulrunner-0:10.0.6-1.el6_3
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1951Critical

Mozilla: Gecko memory corruption (MFSA 2012-44)

Jul 17, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00012.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00013.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00016.html
osvdb.org / 83997
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/49965
secunia.com / advisories/49968
secunia.com / advisories/49972
secunia.com / advisories/49977
secunia.com / advisories/49979
secunia.com / advisories/49992
secunia.com / advisories/49993
secunia.com / advisories/49994
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16077
mozilla.org / security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-44.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/54578
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1509-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1509-2
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1510-1