CVE-2012-1943

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

05/06/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

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-2012-1943

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools