CVE-2012-1942

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1942
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-05 23:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 12.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.9 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 12.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
748764 – (CVE-2012-1942) Possible Arbitrary Code Execution by Update Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
MFSA 2013-45: Mozilla Updater fails to update some Windows Registry entries af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0746-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
MFSA 2012-35: Privilege escalation through Mozilla Updater and Windows Updater Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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