← Back to CVEs

CVE-2012-3974

N/A

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, and Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in a root directory.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/29/2012

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

microsoft:windowsmozilla:firefoxmozilla:thunderbirdmozilla:thunderbird_esr

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-67.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55312(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770478(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16692(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-67.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55312(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770478(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16692(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.