CVE-2012-1943 (GCVE-0-2012-1943)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-06-05 23:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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