CVE-2013-1672

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.6 on Windows allows local users to bypass integrity verification and gain privileges via vectors involving junctions.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 20.0.1; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 17.0, 17.0.1 (+4)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 17.0.5; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4
Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: through 17.0.5; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-44.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=850492
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16915
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-44.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=850492
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16915

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