CVE-2013-1673

Published May 16, 2013 CVSS 2.0 · 6.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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."

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-1700 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."
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mozilla
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 3:13 PM
Reserved
Feb 13, 2013, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 16, 2013, 11:45 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:51 PM