CVE-2012-3973 (GCVE-0-2012-3973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-29 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:21
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757128 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55308 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://osvdb.org/85005 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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