CVE-2012-4187
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…
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Description
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 do not properly manage a certain insPos variable, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and assertion failure) via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.8% · top 5.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- 50904 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50984 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50935 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50856 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50892 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 50936 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 55318 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:163 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 56125 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787493 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1611-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16425 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2012-4187)Record last updated .