VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3973

high
Published 2012-08-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
7.6
VIR risk
7.6

Description

The debugger in the developer-tools subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, when remote debugging is disabled, does not properly restrict access to the remote-debugging service, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the presence of the HTTPMonitor extension and connecting to that service through the HTTPMonitor port.

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/mfsa2012-66.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"14.0"}
mozillafirefox1.0
mozillafirefox1.0.1
mozillafirefox1.0.2
mozillafirefox1.0.3
mozillafirefox1.0.4
mozillafirefox1.0.5
mozillafirefox1.0.6
mozillafirefox1.0.7
mozillafirefox1.0.8
mozillafirefox1.4.1
mozillafirefox1.5
mozillafirefox1.5.0.1
mozillafirefox1.5.0.2
mozillafirefox1.5.0.3
mozillafirefox1.5.0.4
mozillafirefox1.5.0.5
mozillafirefox1.5.0.6
mozillafirefox1.5.0.7
mozillafirefox1.5.0.8
mozillafirefox1.5.0.9
mozillafirefox1.5.0.10
mozillafirefox1.5.0.11
mozillafirefox1.5.0.12
mozillafirefox1.5.1
mozillafirefox1.5.2
mozillafirefox1.5.3
mozillafirefox1.5.4
mozillafirefox1.5.5
mozillafirefox1.5.6
mozillafirefox1.5.7
mozillafirefox1.5.8
mozillafirefox1.8
mozillafirefox2.0
mozillafirefox2.0.0.1
mozillafirefox2.0.0.2
mozillafirefox2.0.0.3
mozillafirefox2.0.0.4
mozillafirefox2.0.0.5
mozillafirefox2.0.0.6
mozillafirefox2.0.0.7
mozillafirefox2.0.0.8
mozillafirefox2.0.0.9
mozillafirefox2.0.0.10
mozillafirefox2.0.0.11
mozillafirefox2.0.0.12
mozillafirefox2.0.0.13
mozillafirefox2.0.0.14
mozillafirefox2.0.0.15
mozillafirefox2.0.0.16
mozillafirefox2.0.0.17
mozillafirefox2.0.0.18
mozillafirefox2.0.0.19
mozillafirefox2.0.0.20
mozillafirefox3.0
mozillafirefox3.0.1
mozillafirefox3.0.2
mozillafirefox3.0.3
mozillafirefox3.0.4
mozillafirefox3.0.5
mozillafirefox3.0.6
mozillafirefox3.0.7
mozillafirefox3.0.8
mozillafirefox3.0.9
mozillafirefox3.0.10
mozillafirefox3.0.11
mozillafirefox3.0.12
mozillafirefox3.0.13
mozillafirefox3.0.14
mozillafirefox3.0.15
mozillafirefox3.0.16
mozillafirefox3.0.17
mozillafirefox3.5
mozillafirefox3.5.1
mozillafirefox3.5.2
mozillafirefox3.5.3
mozillafirefox3.5.4
mozillafirefox3.5.5
mozillafirefox3.5.6
mozillafirefox3.5.7
mozillafirefox3.5.8
mozillafirefox3.5.9
mozillafirefox3.5.10
mozillafirefox3.5.11
mozillafirefox3.5.12
mozillafirefox3.5.13
mozillafirefox3.5.14
mozillafirefox3.5.15
mozillafirefox3.6
mozillafirefox3.6.2
mozillafirefox3.6.3
mozillafirefox3.6.4
mozillafirefox3.6.6
mozillafirefox3.6.7
mozillafirefox3.6.8
mozillafirefox3.6.9
mozillafirefox3.6.10
mozillafirefox3.6.11
mozillafirefox3.6.12
mozillafirefox3.6.13
mozillafirefox3.6.14
mozillafirefox3.6.15
mozillafirefox3.6.16
mozillafirefox3.6.17
mozillafirefox3.6.18
mozillafirefox3.6.19
mozillafirefox3.6.20
mozillafirefox3.6.21
mozillafirefox3.6.22
mozillafirefox3.6.23
mozillafirefox3.6.24
mozillafirefox3.6.25
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
mozillafirefox10.0
mozillafirefox10.0.1
mozillafirefox10.0.2
mozillafirefox11.0
mozillafirefox12.0
mozillafirefox13.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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