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CVE-2012-1945

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% 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-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 allow local users to obtain sensitive information via an HTML document that loads a shortcut (aka .lnk) file for display within an IFRAME element, as demonstrated by a network share implemented by (1) Microsoft Windows or (2) Samba.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+27)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.9; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+107)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 7.0.1 (+10)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00015.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0710.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0715.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:088
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-37.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670514
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16743
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00015.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0710.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0715.html

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