CVE-2013-1715

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 the (1) full installer and (2) stub installer in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4206.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 22.0; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 21.0

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-74.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883165
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18210
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-74.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883165
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18210

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