CVE-2012-1943 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability in the Windows Updater Service of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions 12.0 and 2.9 respectively. This flaw allows a local attacker to escalate privileges by placing a malicious wsock32.dll file in an application directory. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires medium attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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