CVE-2012-4206
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.
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 25% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mozilla:firefox
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-98.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792106
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80176
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16991