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CVE-2012-1967

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1967 describes a critical vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions, where improper JavaScript sandbox implementation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with elevated privileges via a javascript: URL. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity with a network-based attack vector, 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
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
4.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0399 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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
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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
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1967Critical

Mozilla: Code execution through javascript: URLs (MFSA 2012-56)

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 / 84013
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/49963
secunia.com / advisories/49964
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%3A17025
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2514
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2528
mozilla.org / security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-56.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/54573
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