CVE-2012-1943

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1943
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-05 23:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionUntrusted 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

AV:L/AC:M/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
750850 – (CVE-2012-1943) Updater.exe loads wsock32.dll from application directory af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.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
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