VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3974

medium
Published 2012-08-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, and Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in a root 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/mfsa2012-67.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"14.0"}
mozillafirefox1.0
mozillafirefox1.0.1
mozillafirefox1.0.2
mozillafirefox1.0.3
mozillafirefox1.0.4
mozillafirefox1.0.5
mozillafirefox1.0.6
mozillafirefox1.0.7
mozillafirefox1.0.8
mozillafirefox1.4.1
mozillafirefox1.5
mozillafirefox1.5.0.1
mozillafirefox1.5.0.2
mozillafirefox1.5.0.3
mozillafirefox1.5.0.4
mozillafirefox1.5.0.5
mozillafirefox1.5.0.6
mozillafirefox1.5.0.7
mozillafirefox1.5.0.8
mozillafirefox1.5.0.9
mozillafirefox1.5.0.10
mozillafirefox1.5.0.11
mozillafirefox1.5.0.12
mozillafirefox1.5.1
mozillafirefox1.5.2
mozillafirefox1.5.3
mozillafirefox1.5.4
mozillafirefox1.5.5
mozillafirefox1.5.6
mozillafirefox1.5.7
mozillafirefox1.5.8
mozillafirefox1.8
mozillafirefox2.0
mozillafirefox2.0.0.1
mozillafirefox2.0.0.2
mozillafirefox2.0.0.3
mozillafirefox2.0.0.4
mozillafirefox2.0.0.5
mozillafirefox2.0.0.6
mozillafirefox2.0.0.7
mozillafirefox2.0.0.8
mozillafirefox2.0.0.9
mozillafirefox2.0.0.10
mozillafirefox2.0.0.11
mozillafirefox2.0.0.12
mozillafirefox2.0.0.13
mozillafirefox2.0.0.14
mozillafirefox2.0.0.15
mozillafirefox2.0.0.16
mozillafirefox2.0.0.17
mozillafirefox2.0.0.18
mozillafirefox2.0.0.19
mozillafirefox2.0.0.20
mozillafirefox3.0
mozillafirefox3.0.1
mozillafirefox3.0.2
mozillafirefox3.0.3
mozillafirefox3.0.4
mozillafirefox3.0.5
mozillafirefox3.0.6
mozillafirefox3.0.7
mozillafirefox3.0.8
mozillafirefox3.0.9
mozillafirefox3.0.10
mozillafirefox3.0.11
mozillafirefox3.0.12
mozillafirefox3.0.13
mozillafirefox3.0.14
mozillafirefox3.0.15
mozillafirefox3.0.16
mozillafirefox3.0.17
mozillafirefox3.5
mozillafirefox3.5.1
mozillafirefox3.5.2
mozillafirefox3.5.3
mozillafirefox3.5.4
mozillafirefox3.5.5
mozillafirefox3.5.6
mozillafirefox3.5.7
mozillafirefox3.5.8
mozillafirefox3.5.9
mozillafirefox3.5.10
mozillafirefox3.5.11
mozillafirefox3.5.12
mozillafirefox3.5.13
mozillafirefox3.5.14
mozillafirefox3.5.15
mozillafirefox3.6
mozillafirefox3.6.2
mozillafirefox3.6.3
mozillafirefox3.6.4
mozillafirefox3.6.6
mozillafirefox3.6.7
mozillafirefox3.6.8
mozillafirefox3.6.9
mozillafirefox3.6.10
mozillafirefox3.6.11
mozillafirefox3.6.12
mozillafirefox3.6.13
mozillafirefox3.6.14
mozillafirefox3.6.15
mozillafirefox3.6.16
mozillafirefox3.6.17
mozillafirefox3.6.18
mozillafirefox3.6.19
mozillafirefox3.6.20
mozillafirefox3.6.21
mozillafirefox3.6.22
mozillafirefox3.6.23
mozillafirefox3.6.24
mozillafirefox3.6.25
mozillafirefox4.0
mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozillafirefox5.0
mozillafirefox5.0.1
mozillafirefox6.0
mozillafirefox6.0.1
mozillafirefox6.0.2
mozillafirefox7.0
mozillafirefox7.0.1
mozillafirefox8.0
mozillafirefox8.0.1
mozillafirefox9.0
mozillafirefox9.0.1
mozillafirefox10.0
mozillafirefox10.0.1
mozillafirefox10.0.2
mozillafirefox11.0
mozillafirefox12.0
mozillafirefox13.0
mozillafirefox10.0.3
mozillafirefox10.0.4
mozillafirefox10.0.5
mozillafirefox10.0.6
mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"14.0"}
mozillathunderbird1.0
mozillathunderbird1.0.1
mozillathunderbird1.0.2
mozillathunderbird1.0.3
mozillathunderbird1.0.4
mozillathunderbird1.0.5
mozillathunderbird1.0.6
mozillathunderbird1.0.7
mozillathunderbird1.0.8
mozillathunderbird1.5
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.1
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.2
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.3
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.4
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.5
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.6
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.7
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.8
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.9
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.10
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.11
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.12
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.13
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.14
mozillathunderbird1.5.1
mozillathunderbird1.5.2
mozillathunderbird1.7.1
mozillathunderbird1.7.3
mozillathunderbird2.0
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.0
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.1
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.2
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.3
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.4
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.5
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.6
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.7
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.8
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.9
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.11
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.12
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.13
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.14
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.15
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.16
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.17
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.18
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.19
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.20
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.21
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.22
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.23
mozillathunderbird3.0
mozillathunderbird3.0.1
mozillathunderbird3.0.2
mozillathunderbird3.0.3
mozillathunderbird3.0.4
mozillathunderbird3.0.5
mozillathunderbird3.0.6
mozillathunderbird3.0.7
mozillathunderbird3.0.8
mozillathunderbird3.0.9
mozillathunderbird3.0.10
mozillathunderbird3.0.11

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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