CVE-2012-1942 in Firefox

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 03/30/2012
• Disclosure: 06/05/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-5496 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.4
• EPSS: 0.00045
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1942
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1942
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-1942/