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Vulnerability details: VCID-2s7j-bfh8-87d2
Vulnerability ID VCID-2s7j-bfh8-87d2
Aliases CVE-2012-3989
Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, NSS, GNU IceCat, and XULRunner, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code or local privilege escalation.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
epss 0.00854 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
cvssv2 9.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3989
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-80
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
http://osvdb.org/86097
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-3989.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-3989
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783867
http://secunia.com/advisories/50856
http://secunia.com/advisories/50892
http://secunia.com/advisories/50904
http://secunia.com/advisories/50935
http://secunia.com/advisories/50984
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16814
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-80.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1
863620 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863620
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:10:sp4:*:*:-:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:10:sp4:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:10:sp4:*:*:-:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:10:sp4:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2:*:*:*:-:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2:*:*:*:-:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2:*:*:*:vmware:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2:*:*:*:vmware:*:*
CVE-2012-3989 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3989
CVE-2012-3989 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3989
GLSA-201301-01 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01
mfsa2012-80 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-80
USN-1600-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1600-1/
USN-1611-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1611-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3989
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.74894
EPSS Score 0.00854
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:09:33.260238+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01 38.0.0