CVE-2013-1726

Thunderbird ESR < 17.0.9 - Local Privilege Escalation via MAR File Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, Thunderbird before 24.0, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 does not ensure exclusive access to a MAR file, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a Trojan horse file after MAR signature verification but before MAR use.

References (6)

Core 6
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%3A18821
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115907.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116610.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890853
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117526.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0034
EPSS Percentile 25.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (35)
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
mozilla/firefox 22.0
mozilla/firefox 23.0
mozilla/firefox 17.0
mozilla/firefox 17.0.1
... and 25 more
Published Sep 18, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026