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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-08-29T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:21:04.216Z

Reserved: 2012-07-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-3973

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-08-29T10:56:41.037

Modified: 2017-09-19T01:35:13.730

Link: CVE-2012-3973

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-3973 - Bugzilla