CVE-2012-1942

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

05/06/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
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::::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
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::::::::

CVE-2012-1942

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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