CVE-2012-1942

high
Published 2012-06-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.2

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox12.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.9
mozilla mozillathunderbird12.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.