CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-4206

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2012-11-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-21
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 the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 16.0.2) • mozilla firefox 0.1 • mozilla firefox 0.2 • mozilla firefox 0.3 • mozilla firefox 0.4 • mozilla firefox 0.5 • mozilla firefox 0.6 • mozilla firefox 0.6.1 • mozilla firefox 0.7 • mozilla firefox 0.7.1 • mozilla firefox 0.8 • mozilla firefox 0.9 • mozilla firefox 0.9.1 • mozilla firefox 0.9.2 • mozilla firefox 0.9.3 • mozilla firefox 0.10 • mozilla firefox 0.10.1 • 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 … and 102 more

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