CVE-2013-1673

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

16/05/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::		20.0.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:::::::*
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:o:microsoft:windows::::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::		20.0.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:::::::*
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:o:microsoft:windows::::::::

CVE-2013-1673

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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