CVE-2012-0464
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 4.0%EU EUVD
Use-after-free vulnerability in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an empty argument to the array.join function in conjunction with the triggering of garbage collection.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 4.0% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0496)
- Published
- March 14, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0496 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
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- mozilla / seamonkey
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00042.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://pwn2own.zerodayinitiative.com/status.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0387.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0388.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48359
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48402
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48414
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48495(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48496(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48513(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48553(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48561(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48624(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48629(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48823(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:031
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:032
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-19.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52465
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-2(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-3(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-4(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-5(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1401-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/mozilla-knew-of-pwn2own-bug-before-cansecwest/10757(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/researchers-hack-into-newest-firefox-with-zero-day-flaw/10663(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720079(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735104(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14170(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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