CVE-2012-1943
Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey <12.0 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924
Scores
EPSS
0.0029
EPSS Percentile
21.4%
Details
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