Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-1943 - Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Seamonkey and Thunderbird
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Updater.exe in the Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wsock32.dll file in an application directory. http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 3 | |
OS | 1 |
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_MOZILLAFIREFOX-8189.NASL description MozillaFirefox has been updated to 10.0.5ESR fixing various bugs and security issues. - Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. (MFSA 2012-34) In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products. References Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, and Brian Bondy reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox 12. (CVE-2012-1938) Christian Holler reported a memory safety problem that affects Firefox ESR. (CVE-2012-1939) Igor Bukanov, Olli Pettay, Boris Zbarsky, and Jesse Ruderman reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR and Firefox 13. (CVE-2012-1937) Ken Russell of Google reported a bug in NVIDIA graphics drivers that they needed to work around in the Chromium WebGL implementation. Mozilla has done the same in Firefox 13 and ESR 10.0.5. (CVE-2011-3101) - Security researcher James Forshaw of Context Information Security found two issues with the Mozilla updater and the Mozilla updater service introduced in Firefox 12 for Windows. The first issue allows Mozilla last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2012-06-15 plugin id 59520 published 2012-06-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59520 title SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 8189) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_MOZILLAFIREFOX-120611.NASL description Mozilla Firefox has been updated to 10.0.5ESR fixing various bugs and security issues. - Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. (MFSA 2012-34) In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products. References Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, and Brian Bondy reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox 12. (CVE-2012-1938) Christian Holler reported a memory safety problem that affects Firefox ESR. (CVE-2012-1939) Igor Bukanov, Olli Pettay, Boris Zbarsky, and Jesse Ruderman reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR and Firefox 13. (CVE-2012-1937) Ken Russell of Google reported a bug in NVIDIA graphics drivers that they needed to work around in the Chromium WebGL implementation. Mozilla has done the same in Firefox 13 and ESR 10.0.5. (CVE-2011-3101) - Security researcher James Forshaw of Context Information Security found two issues with the Mozilla updater and the Mozilla updater service introduced in Firefox 12 for Windows. The first issue allows Mozilla last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2013-01-25 plugin id 64208 published 2013-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64208 title SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 6425) NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_THUNDERBIRD_130.NASL description The installed version of Thunderbird is earlier than 13.0 and thus, is potentially affected by the following security issues : - An error exists in the ASN.1 decoder when handling zero length items that can lead to application crashes. (CVE-2012-0441) - Multiple memory corruption errors exist. (CVE-2012-1937, CVE-2012-1938) - Two heap-based buffer overflows and one heap-based use- after-free error exist and are potentially exploitable. (CVE-2012-1940, CVE-2012-1941, CVE-2012-1947) - Two arbitrary DLL load issues exist related to the application update and update service functionality. (CVE-2012-1942, CVE-2012-1943) - The inline-script blocking feature of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59409 published 2012-06-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59409 title Mozilla Thunderbird < 13.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family Windows NASL id SEAMONKEY_210.NASL description The installed version of SeaMonkey is earlier than 2.10.0. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues : - An error exists in the ASN.1 decoder when handling zero length items that can lead to application crashes. (CVE-2012-0441) - Multiple memory corruption errors exist. (CVE-2012-1937, CVE-2012-1938) - Two heap-based buffer overflows and one heap-based use- after-free error exist and are potentially exploitable. (CVE-2012-1940, CVE-2012-1941, CVE-2012-1947) - Two arbitrary DLL load issues exist related to the application update and update service functionality. (CVE-2012-1942, CVE-2012-1943) - The inline-script blocking feature of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59411 published 2012-06-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59411 title SeaMonkey < 2.10.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_130.NASL description The installed version of Firefox is earlier than 13.0 and thus, is potentially affected by the following security issues : - An error exists in the ASN.1 decoder when handling zero length items that can lead to application crashes. (CVE-2012-0441) - Multiple memory corruption errors exist. (CVE-2012-1937, CVE-2012-1938) - Two heap-based buffer overflows and one heap-based use- after-free error exist and are potentially exploitable. (CVE-2012-1940, CVE-2012-1941, CVE-2012-1947) - Two arbitrary DLL load issues exist related to the application update and update service functionality. (CVE-2012-1942, CVE-2012-1943) - The inline-script blocking feature of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59407 published 2012-06-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59407 title Firefox < 13.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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description | Untrusted search path vulnerability in Updater.exe in the Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wsock32.dll file in an application directory. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
family | windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16924 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
submitted | 2013-05-13T10:26:26.748+04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title | Untrusted search path vulnerability in Updater.exe in the Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wsock32.dll file in an application directory. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
version | 37 |