CVE-2013-1700

Firefox < 21.0 - Privilege Escalation via Trojan Horse Executable

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17126
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867056

Scores

EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 29.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (6)
mozilla/firefox 19.0
mozilla/firefox 19.0.1
mozilla/firefox 19.0.2
mozilla/firefox 20.0
mozilla/firefox 20.0.1
mozilla/firefox < 21.0
Published Jun 26, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026