CVE-2012-4206

MEDIUM

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-98.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792106

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80176

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16991

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2012-11-21

Updated: 2017-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.9

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

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 3.4

Severity: MEDIUM