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CVE-2012-1942
The Mozilla Updater and Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allow local users…
High7.2EPSS 0.28%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 79% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:0746 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16951 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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