CVE-2012-1971
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to garbage collection after certain MethodJIT execution, and unknown other vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 3.8% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1980)
- Published
- August 29, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1980 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-57.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719750
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730208
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732870
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748119
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749039
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752038
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752087
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753162
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754150
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754242
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755916
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765936
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773097
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779849
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780712
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16841
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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