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CVE-2011-1712

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-04-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The txXPathNodeUtils::getXSLTId function in txMozillaXPathTreeWalker.cpp and txStandaloneXPathTreeWalker.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.19, 3.6.x before 3.6.17, and 4.x before 4.0.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.14, allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about heap memory addresses via an XML document containing a call to the XSLT generate-id XPath function.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.18; 1.0, 1.0-preview_release, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+100)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.13; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+43)

References

• http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/03/multi-browser-heap-address-leak-in-xslt.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-18.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640339
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66836
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14467
• http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/03/multi-browser-heap-address-leak-in-xslt.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-18.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640339
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66836
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14467

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