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CVE-2013-1673

• 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 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."

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 20.0.1; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0

References

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

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