CVE-2012-1943 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2012-1943?

CVE-2012-1943 is a medium-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

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1943?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2012-1943?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1943 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-1943 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1943 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-xrjg-wm25-cxc7.