Is CVE-2012-4185 being actively exploited?

CVE-2012-4185 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2012-4185?

CVE-2012-4185 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 9.3 (HIGH).

CVE-2012-4185

HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 8.6%EU EUVD

Buffer overflow in the nsCharTraits::length function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified 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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-119
EPSS score: 8.6% (95th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2012-4129)
Published: October 10, 2012
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-4129 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
mozilla / firefox
mozilla / seamonkey
mozilla / thunderbird
mozilla / thunderbird esr
redhat / enterprise linux desktop
redhat / enterprise linux desktop
redhat / enterprise linux eus
redhat / enterprise linux server
redhat / enterprise linux server
redhat / enterprise linux workstation
redhat / enterprise linux workstation
suse / linux enterprise desktop
suse / linux enterprise desktop
suse / linux enterprise sdk
suse / linux enterprise server
suse / linux enterprise server
suse / linux enterprise server

Certified products that may be affected

3 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 on IBM System z - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0852-2013 - archived
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 including KVM virtualization - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0787-2013 - archived
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH-Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1384 - historical

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://osvdb.org/86116(Broken Link)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/50856(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/50892(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/50904(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/50935(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/50936(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/50984(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/55318(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56127(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1(Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785753(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79162(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16009(Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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