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."
Published: 2013-05-16
Score: 6.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-1700 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."
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Microsoft Windows
Mozilla Firefox
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T15:13:31.694Z

Reserved: 2013-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-1673

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Status : Modified

Published: 2013-05-16T11:45:30.840

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2013-1673

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