CVE-2013-1706

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2013-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in maintenanceservice.exe in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8 allows local users to gain privileges via a long pathname on the command line.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 22.0; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+8)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 17.0.7; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+1)
Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+2)

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-66.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888361
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18930
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-66.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888361
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18930

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