CVE-2012-1942

HighCVSS 7.2/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.2/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jun 5, 2012
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2012-1942: High severity, CVSS 7.2 | Vulnix