National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3973

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757128

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757128

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1548-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1548-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1

External Source: BID

Name: 55308

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55308

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-66.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-66.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 85005

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/85005

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1167

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1157

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1065

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html