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 leveraging write access to a "trusted path."

CVSS v2.0 6.9 MEDIUM

6.9^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.4 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854088
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html	Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17125

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:::::::*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2013-05-16 04:45

Updated : 2017-09-18 18:36

NVD link : CVE-2013-1673

Mitre link : CVE-2013-1673

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-264

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

microsoft

windows

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