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Vulnerability details: VCID-vfbw-j8m3-bbdm
Vulnerability ID VCID-vfbw-j8m3-bbdm
Aliases CVE-2012-1940
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 (2)
CWE-416 Use After Free
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
epss 0.03035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
epss 0.03035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
epss 0.03035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
epss 0.03035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
epss 0.03035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
epss 0.03035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
epss 0.03035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
epss 0.03035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-40
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-1940.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-1940
827843 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827843
CVE-2012-1940 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1940
GLSA-201301-01 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01
mfsa2012-40 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-40
RHSA-2012:0710 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0710
RHSA-2012:0715 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0715
USN-1463-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1463-1/
USN-1463-4 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1463-4/
USN-1463-6 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1463-6/
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.86601
EPSS Score 0.03035
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:08:55.633653+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01 38.0.0