CVE-2012-1942 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2012-1942?

CVE-2012-1942 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 5 Jun 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1942?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2012-1942?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1942 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-1942 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1942 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vvhf-jjrh-q898.