HIGH
Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 on 32-bit Windows 7 platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of the file-open dialog in a child window, related to the IUnknown_QueryService function in the Windows shlwapi.dll library
Published Mar 14, 2012
7.5
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 3.37%
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 on 32-bit Windows 7 platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of the file-open dialog in a child window, related to the IUnknown_QueryService function in the Windows shlwapi.dll library.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
AND
OR
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0.1
- 5.0
- 5.0.1
- 6.0
- 6.0.1
- 6.0.2
- 7.0
- 7.0.1
- 8.0
- 8.0.1
- 9.0
- 9.0.1
Configuration 2
AND
OR
- 10.0
- 10.1
- 10.2
Configuration 3
AND
OR
- 5.0
- 6.0
- 6.0.1
- 6.0.2
- 7.0
- 7.0.1
- 8.0
- 9.0
- 9.0.1
Configuration 4
AND
OR
- 10.0
- 10.0.1
- 10.0.2
Configuration 5
AND
OR
- ≤ 2.7
- 1.0
- 1.0
- 1.0
- 1.0.1
- 1.0.2
- 1.0.3
- 1.0.4
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.6
- 1.0.7
- 1.0.8
- 1.0.9
- 1.1
- 1.1
- 1.1
- 1.1.1
- 1.1.2
- 1.1.3
- 1.1.4
- 1.1.5
- 1.1.6
- 1.1.7
- 1.1.8
- 1.1.9
- 1.1.10
- 1.1.11
- 1.1.12
- 1.1.13
- 1.1.14
- 1.1.15
- 1.1.16
- 1.1.17
- 1.1.18
- 1.1.19
- 1.5.0.8
- 1.5.0.9
- 1.5.0.10
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.2
- 2.0.3
- 2.0.4
- 2.0.5
- 2.0.6
- 2.0.7
- 2.0.8
- 2.0.9
- 2.0.10
- 2.0.11
- 2.0.12
- 2.0.13
- 2.0.14
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.2
- 2.2
- 2.2
- 2.2
- 2.3
- 2.3
- 2.3
- 2.3
- 2.3.1
- 2.3.2
- 2.3.3
- 2.4
- 2.4
- 2.4
- 2.4
- 2.4.1
- 2.5
- 2.5
- 2.5
- 2.5
- 2.5
- 2.6
- 2.6
- 2.6
- 2.6
- 2.6
- 2.6.1
- 2.7
- 2.7
- 2.7
- 2.7
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
7.5 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
3.37% 0.03370
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.03370
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (13 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 3.37% (0.03370) | 88.35th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.41% (0.03408) | 87.28th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 2.91% (0.02911) | 85.14th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 3.99% (0.03994) | 80.42th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.60% (0.02601) | 84.59th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 16.23% (0.16225) | 96.17th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 2, 2024 | 16.23% (0.16225) | 96.10th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 2, 2024 | 12.97% (0.12974) | 95.39th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 13, 2023 | 9.73% (0.09727) | 94.15th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 8.55% (0.08547) | 93.40th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 7.54% (0.07544) | 92.83th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 7.54% (0.07544) | 92.13th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 7.54% (0.07544) | 81.06th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (11)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48402 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48561 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48629 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:032 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-12.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684555 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14258 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48402 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48561 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48629 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:032 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA | |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-12.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684555 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14258 | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 14, 2012
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jan 9, 2012
Link CVE-2012-0454
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a