CVE-2012-1971: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to garbage collection after certain MethodJIT execution, and unknown other vectors.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 14.0; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.11; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 14.0; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …

Published 2012-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.