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CVE-2013-1700

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-06-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 21.0; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-62.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867056
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17126
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-62.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867056
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17126

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