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CVE-2012-1943

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.

Published

2012-06-05T23:55:01.733

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.9 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	12.0	Yes
Application	mozilla	seamonkey	2.9	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	12.0	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows	*	No

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html ([email protected])
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)