Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2012-3973 First vendor Publication 2012-08-29
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-09-19

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.6 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3973

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17039
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17039
Title: 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.
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.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2012-3973
 Version: 8
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
 Product(s): Mozilla Firefox
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 307

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-13 Name : SuSE Update for MozillaFirefox openSUSE-SU-2012:1064-1 (MozillaFirefox)
File : nvt/gb_suse_2012_1064_1.nasl
2012-09-17 Name : Ubuntu Update for firefox USN-1548-2
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1548_2.nasl
2012-09-06 Name : Ubuntu Update for firefox USN-1548-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1548_1.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : FreeBSD Ports: firefox
File : nvt/freebsd_firefox69.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : Mandriva Update for firefox MDVSA-2012:145 (firefox)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2012_145.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - August12 (Mac OS X)
File : nvt/gb_mozilla_firefox_mult_vuln_aug12_macosx.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - August12 (Windows)
File : nvt/gb_mozilla_firefox_mult_vuln_aug12_win.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-534.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-538.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_firefox-201208-120831.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201301-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-14 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_firefox-201208-8269.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-12 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1548-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-06 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2012-145.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-31 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_2b8cad90f28911e1a21514dae9ebcf89.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-30 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1548-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-29 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_firefox_15_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-29 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_150.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55308
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-66.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757128
OSVDB http://osvdb.org/85005
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2

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