National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4206

Overview

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.

Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792106

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792106

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-firefox-dll-code-execution(80176)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/80176

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-98.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-98.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1592

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html