Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-1943 - Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Seamonkey and Thunderbird

047910
CVSS 6.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
mozilla
microsoft
nessus

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
Application
Mozilla
3
OS
Microsoft
1

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_MOZILLAFIREFOX-8189.NASL
    descriptionMozillaFirefox 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2012-06-15
    plugin id59520
    published2012-06-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59520
    titleSuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 8189)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_MOZILLAFIREFOX-120611.NASL
    descriptionMozilla 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2013-01-25
    plugin id64208
    published2013-01-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64208
    titleSuSE 11.1 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 6425)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idMOZILLA_THUNDERBIRD_130.NASL
    descriptionThe 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id59409
    published2012-06-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59409
    titleMozilla Thunderbird < 13.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idSEAMONKEY_210.NASL
    descriptionThe 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id59411
    published2012-06-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59411
    titleSeaMonkey < 2.10.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idMOZILLA_FIREFOX_130.NASL
    descriptionThe 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id59407
    published2012-06-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59407
    titleFirefox < 13.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Oval

accepted2014-10-06T04:02:17.956-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameSergey Artykhov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameMaria Kedovskaya
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameShane Shaffer
    organizationG2, Inc.
  • nameMaria Kedovskaya
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameMaria Kedovskaya
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameRichard Helbing
    organizationbaramundi software
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
definition_extensions
  • commentMozilla Thunderbird Mainline release is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:22093
  • commentMozilla Seamonkey is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:6372
  • commentMozilla Firefox Mainline release is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:22259
descriptionUntrusted 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.
familywindows
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:16924
statusaccepted
submitted2013-05-13T10:26:26.748+04:00
titleUntrusted 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.
version37