CVE-2012-3974: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 14.0; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 14.0; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; version 10.0.4 only; version 10.0.5 only; …

Published 2012-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.