CVE-2012-1942
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (21th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1951)
- Published
- June 5, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1951 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / windows
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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