PT-2013-3308 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Published 2013-05-16 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2013-1673

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 21.0

Description The issue arises from the Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox not properly maintaining Mozilla Maintenance Service registry entries during upgrades from older versions. This allows local users with write access to a "trusted path" to gain privileges.

Recommendations For versions prior to 21.0, update to version 21.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-1673

Affected Products

Firefox

Suse

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1673 · Security Note
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17125 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854088 · Note