Published: 05/06/2012 Updated: 29/12/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 614

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-35 Privilege escalation through Mozilla Updater and Windows Updater Service Announced June 5, 2012 Reporter James Forshaw Impact Critical Products Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750850 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16924 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-35/

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