CVE-2012-1942
Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 - Privilege Escalation via DLL Loading
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764
Scores
EPSS
0.0028
EPSS Percentile
20.0%
Details
CWE
CWE-264
Status
published
Products (3)
mozilla/firefox
12.0
mozilla/seamonkey
2.9
mozilla/thunderbird
12.0
Published
Jun 05, 2012
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026