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Vulnerability details: VCID-nd4b-5sfc-n7au
Vulnerability ID VCID-nd4b-5sfc-n7au
Aliases CVE-2012-0454
Summary Security researchers Blair Strang and Scott Bell of Security Assessment found that when a parent window spawns and closes a child window that uses the file open dialog, a crash can be induced in shlwapi.dll on 32-bit Windows 7 systems. This crash may be potentially exploitable. Firefox 3.6 and Thunderbird 3.1 are not affected by this vulnerability.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
epss 0.02332 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-12
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-0454
CVE-2012-0454 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0454
mfsa2012-12 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-12
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.84763
EPSS Score 0.02332
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:17:55.972185+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2012/mfsa2012-12.md 38.0.0