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CVE-2012-0450
Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which…
Low2.1EPSS 0.28%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standard filesystem operations.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 23 days later
· 23 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 80% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-09.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14670 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 78741 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- mozilla-keyhtml-info-disclosure(72869) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716868 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0234 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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