CVE-2012-1943 (GCVE-0-2012-1943)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-05 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:17
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-06-05 00:00
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