PT-2013-3347 · Mozilla · Firefox

Robert Strong · Published 2013-08-07 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2013-1715

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 23.0

Description The issue is related to untrusted search path vulnerabilities in the full installer and stub installer of Mozilla Firefox on Windows. This allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory.

Recommendations For versions prior to 23.0, update to version 23.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-1715

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 4

• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-74.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1715 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883165 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18210 · Note