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CVE-2011-2980

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 3.6.19; 1.0, 1.0-preview_release, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+103)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+18)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642469
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14436
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642469
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14436

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