CVE-2012-1942

high

Description

The 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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-06-05

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H