CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3974
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-29
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, and Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in a root directory.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (<= 14.0)
• mozilla firefox 1.0
• mozilla firefox 1.0.1
• mozilla firefox 1.0.2
• mozilla firefox 1.0.3
• mozilla firefox 1.0.4
• mozilla firefox 1.0.5
• mozilla firefox 1.0.6
• mozilla firefox 1.0.7
• mozilla firefox 1.0.8
• mozilla firefox 1.4.1
• mozilla firefox 1.5
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.8
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.9
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.10
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.11
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.12
• mozilla firefox 1.5.1
• mozilla firefox 1.5.2
• mozilla firefox 1.5.3
• mozilla firefox 1.5.4
• mozilla firefox 1.5.5
• mozilla firefox 1.5.6
• mozilla firefox 1.5.7
• mozilla firefox 1.5.8
• mozilla firefox 1.8
• mozilla firefox 2.0
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.2
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.3
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.4
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.5
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.6
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.7
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.8
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.9
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.10
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.11
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.12
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.13
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.14
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.15
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.16
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.17
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.18
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.19
• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.20
• mozilla firefox 3.0
• mozilla firefox 3.0.1
• mozilla firefox 3.0.2
• mozilla firefox 3.0.3
• mozilla firefox 3.0.4
• mozilla firefox 3.0.5
… and 184 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-67.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55312 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf www.xerox.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770478 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16692 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-67.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55312 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf www.xerox.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770478 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16692 oval.cisecurity.org