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CVE-2012-1943

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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

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.

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
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924

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