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CVE-2012-4206
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 on Windows allows…
Medium6.9EPSS 0.32%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 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 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 74% 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: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-98.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16991 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792106 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1592 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- mozilla-firefox-dll-code-execution(80176) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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