CVE-2011-2980

Mozilla Firefox <3.6.20 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14436

Scores

EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 21.3%

Details

Status published
Products (47)
mozilla/firefox 1.0 (2 CPE variants)
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 1.5 (3 CPE variants)
... and 37 more
Published Aug 18, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026