CVE-2012-1943

medium
Published 2012-06-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

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.

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
mozillafirefox12.0
mozillaseamonkey2.9
mozillathunderbird12.0

References

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