VulnerabilityModified
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…
MEDIUM 6.9EPSS 0.26%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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."
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.26% probability · 18th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854088
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17125
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854088
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17125
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.