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CVE-2012-4206

• 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: 2012-11-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 16.0.2; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+172)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-98.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792106
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80176
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16991
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-98.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792106
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80176
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16991

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