CVE-2012-0471
Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Multibyte Character Set XSS Vulnerability
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a multibyte character set.
INFO
Published Date :
April 25, 2012, 10:10 a.m.
Last Modified :
April 11, 2025, 12:51 a.m.
Remotely Exploit :
Yes !
Source :
[email protected]
Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2012-0471
vulnerability.
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CVSS Scores
| Score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 2.0 | MEDIUM | [email protected] |
Solution
- Update the affected software to the latest version.
- For Gentoo, unmerge GNU IceCat and XULRunner and then upgrade Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth
information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to
CVE-2012-0471.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2012-0471 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2012-0471
weaknesses.
We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).
Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.
The following list is the news that have been mention
CVE-2012-0471 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2012-0471 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/48920 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/48922 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/48972 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/49047 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/49055 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2457 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2458 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2464 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:066 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:081 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-24.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53219 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715319 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16961 -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:10.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:10.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:10.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jan. 18, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2464 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2458 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2457 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:081 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:066 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 19, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16961 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16961 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 25, 2012
Action Type Old Value New Value
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 4.3
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.72 }} -0.28%
score
0.70192
percentile