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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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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2013-1673

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-1673

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