CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1942
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The Mozilla Updater and Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges by loading a DLL file in a privileged context.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox 12.0
• mozilla seamonkey 2.9
• mozilla thunderbird 12.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html www.mozilla.org
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html www.mozilla.org
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951 oval.cisecurity.org