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.
Published: 2012-06-05
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-1951 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.
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Microsoft Windows
Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey Thunderbird
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:17:27.014Z

Reserved: 2012-03-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-1942

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-06-05T23:55:01.687

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-1942

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