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CVE-2012-1942

• 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: 2012-06-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 12.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: 2.9
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 12.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951

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