CVE-2012-1943 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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: 2012-06-05

Score: 6.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:12.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:2.9:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:12.0:::::::*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2012-1952	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00053.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Windows

Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey Thunderbird

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-06-05T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:17:27.163Z

Reserved: 2012-03-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-1943

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-06-05T23:55:01.733

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-1943

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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