VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1954

critical
Published 2012-07-18 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsDocument::AdoptNode function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving multiple adoptions and empty documents.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-44.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox4.0
mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozillafirefox5.0
mozillafirefox5.0.1
mozillafirefox6.0
mozillafirefox6.0.1
mozillafirefox6.0.2
mozillafirefox7.0
mozillafirefox7.0.1
mozillafirefox8.0
mozillafirefox8.0.1
mozillafirefox9.0
mozillafirefox9.0.1
mozillafirefox11.0
mozillafirefox12.0
mozillafirefox13.0
mozillafirefox10.0
mozillafirefox10.0.1
mozillafirefox10.0.2
mozillafirefox10.0.3
mozillafirefox10.0.4
mozillafirefox10.0.5
mozillathunderbird5.0
mozillathunderbird6.0
mozillathunderbird6.0.1
mozillathunderbird6.0.2
mozillathunderbird7.0
mozillathunderbird7.0.1
mozillathunderbird8.0
mozillathunderbird9.0
mozillathunderbird9.0.1
mozillathunderbird10.0
mozillathunderbird10.0.1
mozillathunderbird10.0.2
mozillathunderbird10.0.3
mozillathunderbird10.0.4
mozillathunderbird11.0
mozillathunderbird12.0
mozillathunderbird13.0
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.1
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.2
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.3
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.4
mozillathunderbird_esr10.0.5
mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.10"}
mozillaseamonkey1.0
mozillaseamonkey1.0.1
mozillaseamonkey1.0.2
mozillaseamonkey1.0.3
mozillaseamonkey1.0.4
mozillaseamonkey1.0.5
mozillaseamonkey1.0.6
mozillaseamonkey1.0.7
mozillaseamonkey1.0.8
mozillaseamonkey1.0.9
mozillaseamonkey1.1
mozillaseamonkey1.1.1
mozillaseamonkey1.1.2
mozillaseamonkey1.1.3
mozillaseamonkey1.1.4
mozillaseamonkey1.1.5
mozillaseamonkey1.1.6
mozillaseamonkey1.1.7
mozillaseamonkey1.1.8
mozillaseamonkey1.1.9
mozillaseamonkey1.1.10
mozillaseamonkey1.1.11
mozillaseamonkey1.1.12
mozillaseamonkey1.1.13
mozillaseamonkey1.1.14
mozillaseamonkey1.1.15
mozillaseamonkey1.1.16
mozillaseamonkey1.1.17
mozillaseamonkey1.1.18
mozillaseamonkey1.1.19
mozillaseamonkey1.5.0.8
mozillaseamonkey1.5.0.9
mozillaseamonkey1.5.0.10
mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozillaseamonkey2.0.2
mozillaseamonkey2.0.3
mozillaseamonkey2.0.4
mozillaseamonkey2.0.5
mozillaseamonkey2.0.6
mozillaseamonkey2.0.7
mozillaseamonkey2.0.8
mozillaseamonkey2.0.9
mozillaseamonkey2.0.10
mozillaseamonkey2.0.11
mozillaseamonkey2.0.12
mozillaseamonkey2.0.13
mozillaseamonkey2.0.14
mozillaseamonkey2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.