CVE-2012-3980

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The web console in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, and Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site that injects this code and triggers an eval operation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 14.0; 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5 (+144)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 14.0; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+95)
Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-72.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55257
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771859
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17000

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