CVE-2012-4206 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

4 documents2 sources
Severity
6.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 62.31%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedNov 21
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 3.4 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox16.0.2+168

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-8jhp-825c-3qwx: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 17↗2022-05-17
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GHSA
GHSA-wrqf-mx92-rrfq: Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in the (1) full installer and (2) stub installer in Mozilla Firefox before 23↗2022-05-17
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