The Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 on Windows does not properly handle inability to launch the Mozilla Updater executable file, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving placement of a Trojan horse executable file at an arbitrary location.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-1727 The Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 on Windows does not properly handle inability to launch the Mozilla Updater executable file, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving placement of a Trojan horse executable file at an arbitrary location.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T15:13:32.225Z

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

Link: CVE-2013-1700

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-06-26T03:19:10.963

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

Link: CVE-2013-1700

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