FKIE_CVE-2013-1673

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-05-16 11:45 - Updated: 2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
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."
References
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.htmlVendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854088
security@mozilla.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17125
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854088
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17125
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox *
mozilla firefox 19.0
mozilla firefox 19.0.1
mozilla firefox 19.0.2
mozilla firefox 20.0
microsoft windows *
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