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CVE-2012-3973

N/A

Description

The debugger in the developer-tools subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, when remote debugging is disabled, does not properly restrict access to the remote-debugging service, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the presence of the HTTPMonitor extension and connecting to that service through the HTTPMonitor port.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/29/2012

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mozilla:firefox

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://osvdb.org/85005(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-66.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55308(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757128(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17039(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://osvdb.org/85005(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-66.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55308(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757128(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17039(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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