PT-2013-2624 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+5

Published 2013-04-03 · Updated 2024-10-21 · CVE-2013-0797

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 20.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 17.0.5 Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0.5 Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 17.0.5 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.17

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL file in an unspecified directory due to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the Mozilla Updater.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 20.0, update to version 20.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 17.0.5, update to version 17.0.5 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0.5, update to version 17.0.5 or later. For Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 17.0.5, update to version 17.0.5 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.17, update to version 2.17 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-0797

Affected Products

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

Thunderbird Esr

References · 6

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-34.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00019.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0797 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830134 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17146 · Note