CVE-2013-1673

The Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0 on Windows does not properly maintain Mozilla Maintenance Service registry entries in certain situations involving upgrades from older Firefox versions, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access to a "trusted path."

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2013-05-16

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854088
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17125