CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1943

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2012-06-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2012-06-05
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Updater.exe in the Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wsock32.dll file in an application directory.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox 12.0 • mozilla seamonkey 2.9 • mozilla thunderbird 12.0

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
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924 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
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924 oval.cisecurity.org