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CVE-2013-1712

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2013-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Updater 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 on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the update directory or (2) the current working directory.

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/mfsa2013-71.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=859072
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18014
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-71.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=859072
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18014

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